Combining Philosophers
Ideas for Theodosius, Lucretius and R.D. Ingthorsson
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27. Natural Reality / A. Classical Physics / 1. Mechanics / a. Explaining movement
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If there were no space there could be no movement, or even creation [Lucretius]
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Atoms move themselves [Lucretius]
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27. Natural Reality / A. Classical Physics / 1. Mechanics / b. Laws of motion
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In modern physics the first and second laws of motion (unlike the third) fail at extremes [Ingthorsson]
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27. Natural Reality / A. Classical Physics / 2. Thermodynamics / d. Entropy
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It is quicker to break things up than to assemble them [Lucretius]
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27. Natural Reality / B. Modern Physics / 4. Standard Model / a. Concept of matter
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If particles have decay rates, they can't really be elementary, in the sense of indivisible [Ingthorsson]
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27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 1. Nature of Time / h. Presentism
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It is difficult to handle presentism in first-order logic [Ingthorsson]
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27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 2. Passage of Time / a. Experience of time
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We can only sense time by means of movement, or its absence [Lucretius]
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27. Natural Reality / E. Cosmology / 1. Cosmology
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This earth is very unlikely to be the only one created [Lucretius]
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27. Natural Reality / E. Cosmology / 2. Eternal Universe
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Nothing can be created by divine power out of nothing [Lucretius]
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