PHILOSOPHERS'STONE.PART 27

According to records from Antiquity,refer to 170titles supposedly authored by him,some 47 preserved and uncompleted books;a repertoire largely of lecture notes given that philosophy during the period was completely an oral activity.He was said to have created scientific terminoloy in use today,a great organizer,established and categorised various sciences accordingly.He sharply critiqued his teacher,who held that ideas were more real than allthe phenomena of nature,Aristotle didnt spare him,retorted he was turning things upside down.He wasan empiricist,consideringutmost significance,he placed in the use of senses like Parmenides.Their highest degree of reality is what we perceive with oursenses,not what we think with ourreason.He contradicts his assumptionthat all things we see in the physicalworld were purely reflections of the things that existed in the spirit world of higher reality and ideas.He thought the contradiction,nature is the real world,things buried inthe human soul were pure natural reflection.