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Ideas for Archimedes, Isaac Newton and Parmenides
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26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 6. Early Matter Theories / c. Ultimate substances
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Newton's four fundamentals are: space, time, matter and force [Newton, by Russell]
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26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 6. Early Matter Theories / e. The One
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There could be movement within one thing, as there is within water [Aristotle on Parmenides]
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The one can't be divisible, because if it was it could be infinitely divided down to nothing [Parmenides, by Simplicius]
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Defenders of the One say motion needs the void - but that is not part of Being [Parmenides, by Aristotle]
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Reason sees reality as one, the senses see it as many [Aristotle on Parmenides]
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Reality is symmetrical and balanced, like a sphere, with no reason to be greater one way rather than another [Parmenides]
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555
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People who say that the cosmos is one forget that they must explain movement [Aristotle on Parmenides]
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The one is without any kind of motion [Parmenides]
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26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 6. Early Matter Theories / f. Ancient elements
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He taught that there are two elements, fire the maker, and earth the matter [Parmenides, by Diog. Laertius]
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26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 7. Later Matter Theories / a. Early Modern matter
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Mass is central to matter [Newton, by Hart,WD]
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26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 7. Later Matter Theories / b. Corpuscles
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An attraction of a body is the sum of the forces of their particles [Newton]
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26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 1. Causation
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Newtonian causation is changes of motion resulting from collisions [Newton, by Baron/Miller]
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26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 1. Laws of Nature
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The principles of my treatise are designed to fit with a belief in God [Newton]
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Principles of things are not hidden features of forms, but the laws by which they were formed [Newton]
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26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 4. Regularities / a. Regularity theory
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I do not pretend to know the cause of gravity [Newton]
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26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 6. Laws as Numerical
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We have given up substantial forms, and now aim for mathematical laws [Newton]
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You have discovered that elliptical orbits result just from gravitation and planetary movement [Newton, by Leibniz]
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26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 8. Scientific Essentialism / c. Essence and laws
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I am not saying gravity is essential to bodies [Newton]
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I won't object if someone shows that gravity consistently arises from the action of matter [Newton]
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26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 8. Scientific Essentialism / e. Anti scientific essentialism
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The motions of the planets could only derive from an intelligent agent [Newton]
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That gravity should be innate and essential to matter is absurd [Newton]
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