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By doubting we come to inquiry; and through inquiry we perceive truth. --- Peter Abelard Disintegration characterizes this time, and thus uncertainty, nothing stands firmly on its feet or on a hard faith in itself, one lives for tomorrow as the day after tomorrow is dubious.
The science of physics, Aristotle stresses, contains almost all there is to know about the world. Were there no separate forms-entities such as the unmoved mover at the pinnacle of the cosmos-which are without matter and are not part of the physical world, physics would be what Aristotle calls first philosophy ( Metaphysics 6.1, 1026a27-31).