poor cricketers, depending on a system of medicine that's failed to progress past a system of balances being the cause of illness, similar to Hippocrates' 4 humours, or the chinese ying/yang system...
while the rest of the world took note of germ theroy and saw it was good.
rishimba, with your appeal to "meta-physics" you are too delving back into the world of Aristotlean thought.
Think of philosophy as science's retarded older brother.
Al-Ghazali, an 11th century scholar realised this as did a number of prominent muslims during the golden age. Europe meanwhile clung onto Aristotlean thought and plunged itself into a dark age.
The above assumes you know what metaphysics actually is.
poor cricketers, depending on a system of medicine that's failed to progress past a system of balances being the cause of illness, similar to Hippocrates' 4 humours, or the chinese ying/yang system...
while the rest of the world took note of germ theroy and saw it was good.
rishimba, with your appeal to "meta-physics" you are too delving back into the world of Aristotlean thought.
Think of philosophy as science's retarded older brother.
Al-Ghazali, an 11th century scholar realised this as did a number of prominent muslims during the golden age. Europe meanwhile clung onto Aristotlean thought and plunged itself into a dark age.
The above assumes you know what metaphysics actually is.