(November 4, 2022 at 5:56 am)Jehanne Wrote: Why do you think that Aristotle and his contemporaries argued for such ideas that heavier objects intrinsically fall faster than do lighter ones based upon PSR?
Did Aristotle make this argument based on the PSR? Or did he have other reasons for thinking this was true?
It would be possible to believe in the PSR, and therefore there must be a reason why things fall as they do, and still misunderstand the reasons why they do so.
Likewise Mr. Becher can believe that there must be a reason why things burn, and then posit that this reason is phlogiston. His chosen reason is wrong, but it doesn't validate or invalidate the PSR, because in fact there is a reason why things burn, whether we know it correctly or not.
