> Once philosophy had become polluted with Platonism, the more Aristotelian thinkers were driven to science. This sentence is meaningful once you define what y

> Once philosophy had become polluted with Platonism, the more Aristotelian thinkers were driven to science. This sentence is meaningful once you define what you mean by Platonism and Aristotelian, and once you do so with definite meanings sufficiently close to what they seem to mean, I really don't think this is correct at all.