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Berkeley's argument for the existence of God

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Berkeley's argument for the existence of God
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RE: Berkeley's argument for the existence of God
March 30, 2018 at 2:44 pm
(March 30, 2018 at 1:58 pm)vulcanlogician Wrote:
(March 30, 2018 at 12:51 pm)polymath257 Wrote: And rejected Aristotle's ideas.

Just like Einstein "rejected" Newton. Rejected and corrected mean the same thing in certain contexts.

I'd argue that Galileo did more 'rejecting'. Galileo's dynamics wasn't approximated by Aristotle's. Einstein's *was* approximated by Newton's.

The point is that Aristotle's physics wasn't even *approximately* correct. It had to be rejected wholesale. It wasn't simply 'corrected'.

One of the guiding principles for both Einstein and Bohr was that the new physics should yield Newtonian physics as an approximation.
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