(December 4, 2021 at 12:24 am)Jehanne Wrote: Zeno claimed that motion was an illusion. Dionysius, his pupil, supposedly disproved this by getting up out of his chair and walking across the room.
Thereby showing that philosophy alone cannot reach truth. At best, it shows our biases and assumptions.
There are many other examples. Kant, for example, regarded Euclidean geometry as synthetic a priori knowledge. The existence of non-Euclidean geometries rather destroyed that idea.
