@FeserEdward Yes and no. What is true is that certain specific erroneous scientific assumptions associated with Aristotle held it back. However, as Edward Grant shows in The Foundations of Modern Science in the Middle Ages, without the general philosophical conception of nature the Aristotelians had hammered out, modern physics would not have been possible...
Yes and no. What is true is that certain specific erroneous scientific assumptions associated with Aristotle held it back. However, as Edward Grant shows in The Foundations of Modern Science in the Middle Ages, without the general philosophical conception of nature the Aristotelians had hammered out, modern physics would not have been possible. And the trouble is that the moderns threw out this philosophical baby with the scientific bathwater.
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