Legalize Absurd

Admin1: Historians discovered that Newton titled his book Scholastic Principles of Mathematical Philosophy but the printer goofed and had the title set as Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy.

Dr. Gravytee: This is wishful thinking on the parts of historians. Newton would never have allowed such a thing to happen.

A1: You mean Newton would have proofread the galleys and made sure that the title was correct?

Dr. G: No. Newton wrote his Principia to be the monumental book of the Scholastic Principles of Mathematical Philosophy.

A1: Why didn't he use that title then?

Dr. G: Newton is the greatest marketing genius of all times. In marketing only one thing matters: You must talk to your market in the language your market would understand.

A1: Who was Newton's market.

Dr. G: Newton knew very well who his market was. Newton wrote his monumental book for his Scholastic colleagues.

A1: This makes sense. Only Scholastic Doctors of Philosophy could read books.

Dr. G: Scholastic Doctors of Theology were included in the audience Newton was aiming. Newton wrote for International Scholastic Doctors around the globe.

A1: Principia does not speak the language of scholasticism. It is a mathematical treatise. It is the most famous science book ever written.

Dr. G: Did you read Newton's Principia.

A1: Sure.

Dr. G: You mean you read the initial chapters where Newton discusses old scholastic subjects such as time, space, gravity, force, the universe, god's role in governing the universe and great polemical experiments such as the bucket experiment.

A1: Yes. I read all of that.

Dr. G: This is Newton's genius. Newton invented mathematical by association and experimental by association methods. By writing about philosophy and geometry under the same cover Newton united two scholastic disciplines.

A1: Doctors of Philosophy of today still use experimental by association.

Dr. G: Of course. It is a brilliant fraud against science.

A1: So all Newton did was to change the official language of scholasticism so that Doctors now philosophized with mathematics instead of Latin.

Dr. G: Philosophy is an old discipline. There is nothing wrong with philosophy as a scientific endeavor if done by scientists. Doctors of Philosophy are not scientists and they are not philosophers either. They are corruptors of languages. A Doctor of Philosophy is in fact a Doctor of the Absurd.

A1: Was absurd invented by Newton too?

Dr. G: No. Newton did not invent the absurd. Newton made the absurd legal in Scholasticism.

A1: How?

Dr. G: It was known for millennia that if you compare apples and oranges you would obtain an absurd result. Geometry and mathematics were good frameworks to investigate nature and they gave good results because it was forbidden to use mixed proportionalities in mathematics. Mixed proportionality is the comparison of apples and oranges.

A1: Did Newton make mixed proportionalities legal?

Dr. G: Open the best science book ever written and read the reference that I have given you. All of the absurd manufactured last three hundred years by Newtonian Doctors of Philosophy can be traced to Newton's marketing genius. He opened a whole new possibilities for Doctors to write commentary on by legalizing the absurd.

A1: If we make Newton illegal would we recover science?

Dr. G: We would. Post-Newtonian generation will enjoy Freedom of Science.