Combining Philosophers
Ideas for Heraclitus, Parmenides and Saul A. Kripke
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27. Natural Reality / A. Classical Physics / 1. Mechanics / a. Explaining movement
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It is feeble-minded to look for explanations of everything being at rest [Aristotle on Parmenides]
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All things are in a state of motion [Heraclitus, by Aristotle]
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27. Natural Reality / C. Space / 1. Void
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The void can't exist, and without the void there can't be movement or separation [Parmenides, by Aristotle]
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27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 3. Parts of Time / a. Beginning of time
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What could have triggered the beginning [of time and being]? [Parmenides]
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27. Natural Reality / E. Cosmology / 1. Cosmology
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He was the first to discover the identity of the Morning and Evening Stars [Parmenides, by Diog. Laertius]
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He was the first person to say the earth is spherical [Parmenides, by Diog. Laertius]
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27. Natural Reality / E. Cosmology / 2. Eternal Universe
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420
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The cosmos is eternal not created, and is an ever-living and changing fire [Heraclitus]
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27. Natural Reality / G. Biology / 5. Species
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Tigers may lack all the properties we originally used to identify them [Kripke]
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The original concept of 'cat' comes from paradigmatic instances [Kripke]
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'Tiger' designates a species, and merely looking like the species is not enough [Kripke]
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