I'm just going to defend Aristotle a bit. His incomplete logic and metaphysics nevertheless provided a powerful foundation to inquire into many aspects of the w

I'm just going to defend Aristotle a bit. His incomplete logic and metaphysics nevertheless provided a powerful foundation to inquire into many aspects of the world that his predecessors did not do, nor do systematically. His community did not shy away from empirical research in biology. They all came to wrong conclusions in some things, but we should rather fault their successors for not challenging them.