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Were Aristotle’s predictions of heavenly motion quantitative or qualitative?

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Were Aristotle's predictions of heavenly motion quantitative or qualitative? Aristotle's predictions were qualitative because it did not have any quantitative predictions of motion, e.g where and when to find planets.

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It is qualitative

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Quantitative prediction could be measured by numbers (countable) while qualitative prediction is the other way around. The prediction of heavenly motion by Aristotle proposed the idea that Earth is the center of universe while other planets and suns move in a spherical motion around it. His prediction was not backed by any proof or measurable data, it can only be considered as qualitative.

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