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Ep. 6 - Aristotle, Kant, and Evolution

Awakening from the Meaning Crisis

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Aristotelian Model of Change

Aristotelian model had been around for thousands of years. Why was newton's model overtaking it so rapidly? And what kant said is, well, this does something very wonderful for us. It gives us a simple account of how we explain things. This prevents what are called circular explanations. So here's a standard kind of model. People often use this without realizing there's a triangle out here in the world. The light comes in into my eye, it goes through nerve pulses, that goes into my consciousness, writ it somehow projected on to an inner screen,. Then there's a little man inside, and he goes triangle - Hamunculus means a little man.

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