Of course this is only a partial result from the neo-Aristotelian point of view. The fact that
Aristotelian metaphysics is compatible with good science is not yet an argument for its
truth, since the same might be true of other metaphysical outlooks. An opponent of the neo-
Aristotelian view might point out that in fact the great scientific advances of the seventeenth
century were accompanied by the abandonment of Aristotelian metaphysics, and ask
why, if the Aristotelian view is the best one, it was abandoned in the course of scientific
advance.