thomblake comments on Archimedes's Chronophone - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Mass_Driver 10 May 2010 07:13:49AM 2 points [-]

I've always thought that the middle chapters of Plato's Republic were satire. Are you quite sure that classical Greek philosophers were disdainful of empirical phenomena? How do you explain, e.g., Aristotle's Physics?

Comment author: thomblake 09 January 2012 06:07:28PM 1 point [-]

I've always thought that the middle chapters of Plato's Republic were satire.

I've held the same view, and while it is unpopular it's not unique.