Galileo and Newton and their ideas
Title: Galileo and Newton and their ideas
Category: /Social Sciences/Philosophy
Details: Words: 1169 | Pages: 4 (approximately 235 words/page)
Galileo and Newton and their ideas
Category: /Social Sciences/Philosophy
Details: Words: 1169 | Pages: 4 (approximately 235 words/page)
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…showed last 75 words of 1169 total…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.