thomblake comments on Archimedes's Chronophone - Less Wrong
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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?
I've held the same view, and while it is unpopular it's not unique.