Steve Greenleaf

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Aristotle’s science has plenty of observations and plenty of theory. The observations are relevant to the theory, but the theory is often not exactly based on the observations, in the direct sense of a modern (or Galilean, or Copernican) mathematical model, in which numerical data agree with the numerical predictions of the theory.
The Science of Conjecture: Evidence and Probability Before Pascal
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