Aristotle

No Innate Ideas

For Aristotle the highest degree of reality was the one that we perceive through our senses. Unlike Plato, who stated that the highest degree of reality is that which we think with our reason.

NATURAL SCIENCES

What are the implications of introducing non-native or exotic species into an environment? This affects the diversity of life on Earth. The problem of Biodiversity should be taken into consideration. This problem is better understood when it is perceived through the senses. Biodiversity is not just an ´´idea´´ of something that is happening. It is a fact, and people around the globe are sensing its repercussions. This was happening ever since people started introducing commercial species into an environment. And then, the idea of biodiversity arose.Therefore, the ´´form´´ biodiversity came well before the ´´idea´´ biodiversity.

http://www.actionbioscience.org/biodiversity/simberloff.html

This can be seen in Lake Yojoa in Honduras. Other species of fish lived in the lake before tilapia was introduced into it. Due to the fact that tilapia are larger fish than the native species in Yojoa, the tilapia eventually obliterated the native species. This took place before people came up with the ´´idea´´ that introducing tilapia would exterminate the previous species. Therefore, what we perceive through our senses comes before we conceive the ´´idea´´.

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