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To: Father Terrence who wrote (53257)	8/27/1999 4:36:00 AM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Aristotle advanced beyond Plato, but building on Plato. In a sense, he merely gave a better account of how the Forms related to matter than Plato had provided. Despite Ayn Rand's encomia, Aristotle was not much more empirical than Plato. In any event, "irrational" is not the proper term, since the whole point is the attempt to impose a rational order on experience without adequate empirical validation. It is like calling Zeno irrational for claiming that motion was an illusion: on the contrary, his reasoning is impeccable. The objection is that even if motion were an "illusion", it would be a "mental motion", and therefore it is an inadequate solution to the paradox. Thus, the paradox stands as an example of the inadequacy of pure reason. So with various of Plato's doctrines....