Did Aristotle Fail in Physics? Part 2

Terms for Premise A: What is Physics? What is World View?

Now I’ll address terminology for Premise A. Here’s the argument from Part 1:

Premise A—>An organismic world view causes a failure in physics.
Premise B—>Aristotle held an organismic world view.
Therefore, Aristotle failed in physics.

What is Physics?

Jaki has a strict definition of “physics.” He calls it an exact science. I reviewed this definition in the first chapter of Science Was Born of Christianity, and below this post I have included the list of references. For Jaki, physics is the most exact science, even more so than chemistry and biology. He also contrasts modern physics with the qualitative physics of ancient natural philosophy, i.e., Aristotelian physics. He calls physics the study of objects in motion. Since motion is continuous, such a study requires infinitesimal calculus.

This branch of mathematics deals with change as it approaches infinitely smaller intervals. It has two sub-branches: differential calculus and integral calculus. Differential calculus deals with rates of c…