Many Inquiries, One Science
from Part I - Erotetic Frameworks and Domain-Specific Norms
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 May 2021
Chapter Summary. Metaph. Ε.1 provides a deceptively clean map of scientific knowledge, differentiating three forms of theoretical knowledge (first philosophy, mathematics, natural science) from each other and theoretical knowledge as a whole from practical and productive knowledge. The focus of this chapter will be on natural science (ἡ φυσικὴ ἐπιστήμη, 1025b19), considered as the ultimate goal of natural inquiry. Given the results established up to this point about Aristotle’s general account of inquiry, my aim in this chapter is to answer two related, more specific questions about natural inquiry
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