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Descartes and 'The Aristotelians' on the Soul as the Life of the Body | Prof. Sarah Byers

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The Reduction of Local Motion

Aristotle was less concerned with getting to the truth of the matter than being concerned with developing a mental skill or doing exercises. And in some ways, this is what you see kind of an, what we call analytic philosophy. Now there's so much emphasis on skill and just like, can you think, prove to me that you can come up with a beautiful thought experiment or a beautiful proof? All at the level of a priori thinking rather than the fundamental thing is not to be wrong and corresponding to reality, right?

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