Antiperistasis aristotle biography

Term used by Aristotle for the theory of motion that denies that there is a void, and denies the existence of any force except impulsion.
Term used by *Aristotle for the theory of motion that denies that there is a void, and denies the existence of any force except impulsion.
30Aristotle's theory of antiperistasis supposes that while the medium remains stationary during the object's movement through it, it nevertheless '.

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Kevin T. Kelly

Department of Philosophy

Carnegie Mellon Univeristy

Historical Significance

Plato (427-347) was Socrates's student. Aristotle (384-322) was Plato's student. Alexander the Great was Aristotle's student. Plato set up a school called the Academy. Following this example Aristotle set up a school called the Lyceum. From what has survived, Plato seems more introspective and mathematical whereas Aristotle seems more like an empirical biologist. Of course, this is an oversimplification, but it is a useful one.

Much of the history of both Islamic and Christian civilization can be tracked as a swinging pendulum of popularity between the schools of Plato and Aristotle. This may sound extravagant, but here is how it happened. The early Christian Church had its doctrinal roots in Platonic mysticism, as some of the best educated and most influential advocates of Christianity (e.g., St. Augustine) hadPlatonic training.

The western Roman empire collapsed in the late 5th century, leading to a collapse of organized learning and a loss of nearly all original Greek texts. Ch

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1. The ancient Greek worldview

1The history of mechanics has been extensively investigated in a number of historical works, including classic books such as Mach (1960), Dugas (1988), and Clagett (1961), and scores of articles in various academic journals. The full story from the Greeks and medievals through the Scientific Revolution to the modern era is long and complex. It is also incomplete. Studies to date have been admirably thorough in putting empirical discoveries into proper perspective and in making clear the great importance of mathematical innovations. But there has been surprisingly little regard for the role of thought experiments in the development of mechanics. Of course, many historians have rightly stressed the importance of reconceptualization in the history of science and further noted that this process was something different than the observation of new facts. But the focus has not been on thought experiments as the driving force behind such conceptual developments. In neither kinematics nor dynamics have thought experiments received their historical due in the

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Antiperistasis

Antiperistasis, in philosophy, is a general term for various processes, real or contrived, referring to the interaction of two opposite qualities, one whereof, by its opposition excites and heightens the force of the other. Historically, this explanation was applied to numerous phenomena, from the interaction of quick lime with cold water, to the origin of thunder and lightning.

This term is Greek, άντιπερίστασὶς, formed of άντί (contra, "against") and περίστασις ("standing around"); q.d. resistance against anything that surrounds or besets another. It was usually defined as, "the opposition of a contrary quality, whereby the quality it opposes becomes heightened, or intended; or the action whereby a body attacked by another, collects itself, and becomes stronger by such opposition; or an intension of the activity of one quality, by the opposition of another."

It was using this explanation that academic philosophers claimed that cold, on many occasions, increases a body's degree of heat, and dryness that of moisture. Thus, it was said, that qui