Re: Aristotle and Reality

[Monica <coolintensity@yahoo.com>]

A quote I remember from somewhere:

"The Greeks always tested every hypothesis twice -

first drunk, then sober."

Krispen Hartung <khartung@cableone.net> wrote:

> > Also, keep in mind that reality is largely subjective. Aristotle 
> > approaches Reality from an objective point of view. I can think of two 
> > consequences right offhand that fall from this; both as a consequence 
> > owing to the fact that the human mind is a pattern-recognition engine.
>
> Yes! That is a key point. Aristotle had to bind qualities to essense, 
> otherwise he couldn't have done what he did so well, which was to categorize 
> things and arrange them in a natural hierarchy.....which ended up 
> influencing the
>  concent of "The Chain of Being", which by the way was 
> partially responsible for generating anti-evolutionary sentiments during the 
> hay day of Darwin, Lamarch, etc. A species was considered fixed and 
> immutable on this chain of being. Of course, they had no idea of genetics 
> until Mendel's pea experiments came along, which showed that species were 
> mutable over time based on the mutation and mixing of the units of heredity. 
> Figuratively speaking, Aristotle was rolling in his grave and the Greek 
> philosopher Hericlitus, known for his theory of the flux (that all things 
> change), was screaming horray!!!!
>
> Hericlitus would have been a great looper. :)
>
> K-

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