PHILOSOPHERS'STONE.PART 28

He lampooned platonic as infantile and puerile,trapped in the mythical,in which mortal imagination was confused with the real world. That nothing exist in the consciousness which has not first been experienced in the senses.He also held that all our thoughts and ideas have come into our consciousness based upon what we have heard and seen.He disputed Plato's notion of innate ideas and never deny reason as man's most distinguishing characteracteristics,that man has no innate ideas,and reason is completely empty until we have sense something.He was able nature into several categories such as living things and non living things with the former equiped with potentiality for change.Non livings such as stones,drops of water or heaps of soil were classified as having no potentiality,a submission that Herarclitus would have debated and ferociously challenged.It should be noted however that Aristotelian metaphysics and its geocentric principles of the universe dominated European thoughts for more than 20centuries .