Combining Philosophers
Ideas for Tom Clark, Sextus Empiricus and Democritus
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27. Natural Reality / A. Classical Physics / 1. Mechanics / a. Explaining movement
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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 / 1. Void
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24059
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Democritus is wrong: in a void we wouldn't see a distant ant in exact detail [Aristotle on Democritus]
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Movement is impossible in a void, because nothing can decide the direction of movement [Aristotle on Democritus]
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20905
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Growth and movement would not exist if there were no void to receive them [Democritus]
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27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 1. Nature of Time / b. Relative time
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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
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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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22742
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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 / E. Cosmology / 1. Cosmology
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20911
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There are unlimited worlds of varying sizes, some without life or water [Democritus, by Hippolytus]
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