Single Idea 22741

[catalogued under 17. Mind and Body / D. Property Dualism / 4. Emergentism]

Full Idea

The incorporeal will never come into existence from body because the nature of the incorporeal does not exist in body.

Gist of Idea

The incorporeal is not in the nature of body, and so could not emerge from it

Source

Sextus Empiricus (Against the Physicists (two books) [c.180], I.225)

Book Reference

Sextus Empiricus: 'Against the Physicists/Against the Ethicists', ed/tr. Bury,R.G. [Harvard Loeb 1997], p.113


A Reaction

So nothing high could be made of pebbles because pebbles are not high? His argument depends on incorporeality having an intrinsically incorporeal nature. Pebbles have some height which can be extended.