Aristotle believed that things are scientific which is when something is able to be investigated through research and experiments only if one is able to make causal claims about that thing. A random event defies this criterion as it is random, and it is therefore not possible to make causal claims about it. For instance, to make predictions about how it will occur or behave in the future; it is impossible to make such predictions about such a phenomenon because it is, after all random; free of patterns, laws, rules, etc. Honey-water, by virtue of having been illustrated repeatedly to be an effective treatment for fever patients, and which by all accounts should be assumed to remain an effective treatment, is non-random; it follows a specific pattern, that of mitigating fever symptoms. Thus, although honey-water is man-made, as a solution, sugar and water, it possesses its own particular emergent properties and always, or for the most part, serves as an effective treatment for fever. So therefore, Aristotle believes that everything is about science.
Do you think that everything should be based off of scientific research for the proof of something's cause?
Wednesday, March 3, 2010
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