Originally posted by One Bad Pig
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Also, "confirmed" and "disconfirmed" is very firmly (pun intended) based on logic.
Also, the hypothesis of:
* Geocentrism true (not just apparent)
* Tychonian orbits true (not just apparent)
* God moving aether and celestial bodies with it each day (updated version of solid spheres, to make them compatible with Tychonian orbits and comets, which real solids are not)
* angels moving celestial bodies in more or less complex ways eastward, except for fixed stars
* angels moving fixed stars 20 arc minutes per annum (corr. aberration) and some minute variations (corr. to parallax and at maximum to proper movement)
is a hypothesis so far not disconfirmed.
But if you think Aristoteles and Scholastics hammered out pure a prioris on logic without observation, like Kant, Hegel and other German idealists, and didn't bother with observation, think again.
And I hope you don't limit "empirical observations" to exclude commonplace observations.
You are perfectly correct that I have read St Thomas much more than Aristotle, my Latin was St Thomas level well before I left university and my Greek just began to get headway in Aristotle, and I didn't have the occasion to keep Greek up much after leaving without a degree.
It was in fact in an attempt to brush up my Greek that I opened Photius' Bibliotheca and found the phrase "ho en tois hagiois Aougoustinos". Now I wonder if the occasion was some book not by that Saint, since I didn't find it on the list of authors and titles.
Originally posted by Roy
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