Python for philosophers

[Neil Cerutti]

On 2013-05-13, Steven D'Aprano
<steve+comp.lang.python at pearwood.info> wrote:
> I'm not trying to beat the original Poster up for making an
> error, but demonstrating just how badly off track you can get
> by trying to reason from first principles (as Plato may have
> done) instead of empirical study (as Aristotle or Bacon may
> have done). Knowledge of how things actually are beats
> understanding of how they ought to be every time.

Wasn't it Aristarchus who was considered a trouble-maker for
dropping different sized lead balls from a tower? They would land
simultaneously just as his teacher, who taught that heavier
objects fall faster, was walking past.

-- 
Neil Cerutti