(May 28, 2015 at 11:38 am)Anima Wrote:(May 28, 2015 at 11:23 am)Chas Wrote: Why is it that Catholics love Aristotle and Aquinas? They've been dead many centuries and we have moved beyond there limited views.
Please join us in the twenty-first century
Argumentum ad Novitatem again? As stated in a previous thread this is a known logical fallacy. To argue that knowledge is render void due to the passage of time is to say that all knowledge is void since new knowledge is predicated upon old knowledge which was invalidated by the passage of time.
Just because something was determined centuries ago does not mean it is void with the passage of time. (Pythagorean theorem as relevant and valid today as when it was discovered in 500 BC. In fact it is the only means by which know anything of any geometric shape or figure.)
It would appear you are not aware that western civilization, the 21st century one, is built upon Aristotelian logic (Politics is a good read, should you have the time).
I am not saying that it is invalid because it is old, I am saying it is not the be-all and end-all that Catholics seem to believe. There have been many more thinkers since them.
Skepticism is not a position; it is an approach to claims.
Science is not a subject, but a method.
Science is not a subject, but a method.
