CLST 214 Study Guide - Final Guide: Mortar And Pestle, Homeopathy, Middle Ages
3 Feb 2015
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Week 1 lecture 2: start with myth -> gives you science. In which become normal science: until we get anomalies, which throws us into crisis, then we have a revolution, repeat repeat repeat, our new paradigm may not explain everything the previous theory explained. It may not be translatable into terms of old theory: do not think of right and wrong with ancient science, get used to thinking about natural phenomena in radically unfamiliar ways. Increasing approximation of theories to the truth and correction of part errors. Week 1 lecture 3: know mostly about them from what other people say, like aristotle (300 bc) Infinite air is the first principle (this logic is called monism: from this things arise that have come and are going to exist, all things that will be and gods and divine beings. It rests on air and the sun and the moon rest on the stars: hippolytus (ad 170-235, talks about anaximenes.
