Aristotelian physics

Target entity: Aristotelian physics
Context triple: [Scientific Revolution, opposedDoctrine, Aristotelian physics]

• A. Classical Greek philosophy
  Classical Greek philosophy is the foundational period of Western thought, centered on figures like Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle, that established core ideas in ethics, metaphysics, logic, and political theory.
• B. Aristotle
  Aristotle was an ancient Greek philosopher and polymath whose works on logic, metaphysics, ethics, politics, and natural science profoundly shaped Western thought and intellectual history.
• C. Cartesianism
  Cartesianism is the philosophical system developed by René Descartes, centered on rationalism, mind–body dualism, and the use of methodical doubt to establish certain knowledge.
• D. Presocratic philosophers
  Presocratic philosophers were early Greek thinkers before Socrates who sought natural and rational explanations for the cosmos, laying the foundations of Western philosophy and science.
• E. Parmenides
  Parmenides was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher from Elea known for his doctrine that reality is unchanging and that all change and plurality are illusory.
• F. None of above. chosen
• G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

Target entity: Aristotelian physics
Target entity description: Aristotelian physics is the pre-modern natural philosophy based on Aristotle’s ideas about motion and the elements, which dominated Western thought until it was displaced by the new mechanics of the Scientific Revolution.

• A. Classical Greek philosophy
  Classical Greek philosophy is the foundational period of Western thought, centered on figures like Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle, that established core ideas in ethics, metaphysics, logic, and political theory.
• B. Aristotle
  Aristotle was an ancient Greek philosopher and polymath whose works on logic, metaphysics, ethics, politics, and natural science profoundly shaped Western thought and intellectual history.
• C. Cartesianism
  Cartesianism is the philosophical system developed by René Descartes, centered on rationalism, mind–body dualism, and the use of methodical doubt to establish certain knowledge.
• D. Presocratic philosophers
  Presocratic philosophers were early Greek thinkers before Socrates who sought natural and rational explanations for the cosmos, laying the foundations of Western philosophy and science.
• E. Parmenides
  Parmenides was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher from Elea known for his doctrine that reality is unchanging and that all change and plurality are illusory.
• F. None of above. chosen