(March 30, 2018 at 12:51 pm)polymath257 Wrote:(March 30, 2018 at 12:39 pm)FlatAssembler Wrote: The illusion that philosophy is useless is created by the fact that, when philosophy succeeds at explaining something, it starts to be called science. Galileo almost certainly wouldn't have come up with his ideas if he hadn't read the Aristotle's natural philosophy.
And rejected Aristotle's ideas.
Just like Einstein "rejected" Newton. Rejected and corrected mean the same thing in certain contexts.