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Aristotle (or Empiricism Isn't Simple Observation and Opinion)
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Aristotle (or Empiricism Isn't Simple Observation and Opinion) A friend (in as much as someone who accepts the request that one sends here can be) fell into what I would consider to be a huge logical fallacy, and I couldn't simply let it lay. Hence the Father of Modern Blogging was born. My random conversations on the chat here will wander and meander off into new and uncharted realms. This mornings veering from the mundane landed on a discussion of the merits of philosophers and where Aristotle stood in the grand tradition. The main reason that I love Galileo so deeply and would argue that he was not only a scientist but a philosopher in the best tradition was that he ripped open and gutted, in a very systematic and satisfying nature, all of Aristotle's moronic philosophical arguments about the nature of the world and the universe. Consider it a historical version of what most of us will do with Limbug or Beer's arguments. When things don't make sense, regardless of your viewpoint, you need to pull them apart and expose them for what they are: flawed. My friend argued that Aristotle was the founder of empirical thought and logic. While I got frustrated with this individual and his understanding of Ancient Greek philosophers (logic can be derived from theory, as did Plato, or observation, as Socrates and then Aristotle did), I never got a chance to explain what I felt that Aristotle was the father of: Modern Blogging. Aristotle took his viewpoints and biases and applied them to the world around him, recording his every observation. He didn't think about causality (it requires at least one man and one woman to create a new living thing, therefor both are separate and unique parts of the species) and preferred to wax on about how he as a woman-hating homosexual saw the universe (with women coming into play as defective men). Aristotle didn't have access to telescopes to see how the planets moved or learn more about the stars as Galileo did, but he did work with his limited technology and intellect to create something he felt was significant. Aristotle is the father of Modern Blogging. We are all guilty of it. Taking what we experience and filtering it through our biases to come up with the words and occasional vitriol that constitutes the blogosphere. Aristotle started that. Look. And write what you see. It doesn't mean that we derive any more understanding of the world around us than Aristotle did back in his era. Of course, Aristotle wasn't only the father of modern blogging. He was also the founding father of the misogyny that took root in the Middle East. Where they so lovingly preserved Aristotle's work (damn those scribes), they took his inherent hatred of women and made it a cornerstone of their culture. Thanks for that one, you long dead misogynist. But saying that observation and writing about it is somehow the root of empirical thought and logic? No more than blogs are their end product. How much more ludicrous can one human being be? Testosterone poisoning must surely be to blame. Aristotle couldn't pull his biases out of his ass long enough to have a logical thought. |
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Hmmm.. say what you will about Aristotle but Coppernicus was a prick.
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