thomblake comments on You don't need Kant - Less Wrong

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Comment author: thomblake 03 April 2009 05:16:08PM 2 points [-]

But one might argue that there wasn't anything properly called 'physics' before Newton - Bringing up Newton for Physics is isomorphic to bringing up Socrates for philosophy. Someone calling Aristotle a 'physicist' would be off-base, despite his having written a book called 'physics'.