Galileo and Newton and their ideas
Date Submitted: 05/19/2002 03:46:19
Category: / Social Sciences / Philosophy
Length: 4 pages (1169 words)
Category: / Social Sciences / Philosophy
Length: 4 pages (1169 words)
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…as the material of which all things are made of. I also infer that they would somewhat agree on how truth can be perceived differently in the same manner that opinion is different from knowledge (this idea was illustrated by Plato in his divided line analogy).
For the mechanists, opinion is a perception of truth but an incorrect one because it is not supported with mathematical reasoning and experimentation, which would then make it knowledge.
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