Re: Reconsidering Halton Arp

"Robert J. Kolker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> It doesn't matter. Even if you assume weight means density, I have
> already show that an experiment doable by a boy scout could falsify
> Aristotle's conclusions. He didn't check. That is why he got motion
> all wrong.

But he did check: in water.  Think "terminal velocity" here.  

> Aristotle share the fault of many of the Greek thinkers. They loved
> their logic and their arguments so much they did not bother to
> check. Even John Philliponos in the sixth century c.e., a christian
> scholar in Alexandria knew enough to check.

What is a "Greek thinker"?  I've asked you over and over what that
broad phrase means, and you can't bother to say.

> We are all empiricists now.

Which, actually, we learned from Aristotle, the first great emiricist.

Thomas