Questions tagged [aristotle]
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Was Aristotle really wrong about gravity?
When I was in 9th grade, I learned that Aristotle was responsible for holding back physics for centuries because he said that heavier objects fall faster than lighter objects. Finally, in the 16th ...
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Why did Aristotle make mistakes in his laws of motion?
I was studying Aristotle's laws of motion and comparing them to Newton's. He states that heavier bodies fall faster than lighter ones. I really can't understand how he could have committed such a ...
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Aristotle's and Plato's even and odd numbers, sets and actual infinity [closed]
Plato and Aristotle both use the terms even and odd about numbers (and have a separate discussion of the number 1).
From this point, it seems, there would be no great distance to the sets of even and ...
