Combining Philosophers
Ideas for Herodotus, Friedrich Nietzsche and Sextus Empiricus
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27. Natural Reality / A. Classical Physics / 1. Mechanics / a. Explaining movement
1899
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Does the original self-mover push itself from behind, or pull itself from in front? [Sext.Empiricus]
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1900
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If time and place are infinitely divided, it becomes impossible for movement ever to begin [Sext.Empiricus]
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1901
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If all atoms, times and places are the same, everything should move with equal velocity [Sext.Empiricus]
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A man walking backwards on a forwards-moving ship is moving in a fixed place [Sext.Empiricus]
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27. Natural Reality / C. Space / 2. Space
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Unlike time, space is subjective. Empty space was assumed, but it doesn't exist [Nietzsche]
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27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 1. Nature of Time / a. Absolute time
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Having a sense of time presupposes absolute time [Nietzsche]
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27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 1. Nature of Time / b. Relative time
1903
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If motion and rest are abolished, so is time [Sext.Empiricus]
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27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 1. Nature of Time / i. Denying time
1904
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Time must be unlimited, but past and present can't be non-existent, and can't be now, so time does not exist [Sext.Empiricus]
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27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 2. Passage of Time / c. Tenses and time
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Time doesn't end with the Universe, because tensed statements about destruction remain true [Sext.Empiricus]
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27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 3. Parts of Time / c. Intervals
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Time is divisible, into past, present and future [Sext.Empiricus]
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1905
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How can time be divisible if we can't compare one length of time with another? [Sext.Empiricus]
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27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 3. Parts of Time / e. Present moment
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Socrates either dies when he exists (before his death) or when he doesn't (after his death) [Sext.Empiricus]
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If the present is just the limit of the past or the future, it can't exist because they don't exist [Sext.Empiricus]
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27. Natural Reality / F. Chemistry / 1. Chemistry
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In chemistry every substance pushes, and thus creates new substances [Nietzsche]
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27. Natural Reality / G. Biology / 2. Life
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Life is forces conjoined by nutrition, to produce resistance, arrangement and value [Nietzsche]
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27. Natural Reality / G. Biology / 3. Evolution
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Enquirers think finding our origin is salvation, but it turns out to be dull [Nietzsche]
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Survival might undermine an individual's value, or prevent its evolution [Nietzsche]
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A 'species' is a stable phase of evolution, implying the false notion that evolution has a goal [Nietzsche]
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Darwin overestimates the influence of 'external circumstances' [Nietzsche]
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The utility of an organ does not explain its origin, on the contrary! [Nietzsche]
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