...What is a pragmatic value of music or literature? Yet would you rather do without either? Few among us attempt to or practice writing music.
Most are just happy to be able to appreciate it. Appreciation of music
enhances our lives. Likewise, the ability to appreciate Mathematics
enhances the lives of those who possess it....
...Descartes rejected the use of substantial forms and their concomitant
final causes in physics precisely for this reason. Indeed, his essay Meteorology, that appeared alongside the Discourse on Method, was intended to show that clearer and more fruitful explanations can be obtained without reference to substantial forms but...
...From their perspective, logic and reasoning was the chief preparatory instrument of scientific investigation. Aristotle himself, however, uses the term “logic” as equivalent to verbal reasoning. The Categories of Aristotle are classifications of individual words (as opposed to sentences or propositions), and include the following ten: substance, quantity, quality, relation, place, time, situation, condition, action, passion.
