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Sorry. Typo. Meant to add 'B.C.'.
Compare and contrast also, Aristotle to a contemporary, Democritus who:
Taught that perception is a mechanistic process (thinking and feeling were attributes of matter and not a divine gift.
That there was, in fact, space between atoms.
The sun, not the earth, was the centre of the solar system.
That the milky way was composed of discrete stars.
etc.
Yet poor old Democritus remains largely un-sung. Aristotle and Plato had had a huge public following in exactly the same way someone like that TV guy who talks to dead people or Oral Roberts does today.
It might be B.S., but it was well targeted and well-honed B.S., and Athenians lapped it up.
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