[leereeves]

Aristotle might have been able to stare at a rock and say something clever, but most of his ideas about science were wrong, starting from the very definition of science, which he believed should be based on unprovable first principles (like mathematical axioms).

He rejected atomic theory, believed the Earth was the center of the universe and the four fundamental elements were air, fire, water, and earth, and thought heavy objects fell faster and moving objects would tend to come to a stop if nothing interacted with them.

These were observations that Aristotle and his audience accepted as "obvious". It took more careful and patient observers to discern the less obvious truth.

[ci5er]

It's an iterative process. Anthro-centricism is powerful in terms of what it makes "obvious". The universe spins about the earth. That atoms are made up of objects. That we are the pinnacle of local evolution. That reality is really real.