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Single Idea 22198
[filed under theme 26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 1. Nature
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Full Idea
Aristotelian physics assumed that celestial motion is naturally circular and eternal while terrestrial motion is naturally toward the center of the earth and final.
Gist of Idea
Aristotelian physics has circular celestial motion and linear earthly motion
Source
Geoffrey Gorham (Philosophy of Science [2009], 4)
Book Ref
Gorham,Geoffrey: 'Philosophy of Science' [One World 2009], p.110
A Reaction
The overthrow of this by Galileo and then Newton may have been the most dramatic revolution of the new science. It opened up the possibility of universal laws of physics.
The
34 ideas
with the same theme
[everything existing in known reality]:
589
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'Nature' is just a word invented by people
[Empedocles]
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454
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If there are many things they must have a finite number, but there must be endless things between them
[Zeno of Elea]
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310
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The creator of the cosmos had no envy, and so wanted things to be as like himself as possible
[Plato]
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311
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The cosmos must be unique, because it resembles the creator, who is unique
[Plato]
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1740
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Nature does nothing in vain
[Aristotle]
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632
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Why are some things destructible and others not?
[Aristotle]
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5085
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'Nature' refers to two things - form and matter
[Aristotle]
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5092
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Nature is a principle of change, so we must understand change first
[Aristotle]
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5113
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Nothing natural is disorderly, because nature is responsible for all order
[Aristotle]
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3556
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Stoic 'nature' is deterministic, physical and teleological
[Stoic school, by Annas]
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5716
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Nature runs the universe by herself without the aid of gods
[Lucretius]
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2652
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Some regard nature simply as an irrational force that imparts movement
[Cicero]
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18456
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Unified real existence is neither great nor small, though greatness and smallness participate in it
[Porphyry]
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15987
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Physics only needs geometry or abstract mathematics, which can explain and demonstrate everything
[Descartes]
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19676
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Nature is devoid of thought
[Descartes, by Meillassoux]
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17190
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We can easily think of nature as one individual
[Spinoza]
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15997
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We are so far from understanding the workings of natural bodies that it is pointless to even try
[Locke]
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19429
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The principle of determination in things obtains the greatest effect with the least effort
[Leibniz]
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22053
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The Critique of Judgement aims for a principle that unities humanity and nature
[Kant, by Bowie]
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8256
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Kant identifies nature with the scientific picture of it as the realm of law
[Kant, by McDowell]
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22052
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Kant's nature is just a system of necessary laws
[Bowie on Kant]
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3779
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Unnatural, when it means anything, means infrequent
[Bentham]
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19595
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Nature is a whole, and its individual parts cannot be wholly understood
[Novalis]
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22065
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Fichte reduces nature to a lifeless immobility
[Schlegel,F on Fichte]
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23229
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Nature is wholly interconnected, and the tiniest change affects everything
[Fichte]
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4347
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When man wills the natural, it is no longer natural
[Hegel]
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22057
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Schelling sought a union between the productivities of nature and of the mind
[Schelling, by Bowie]
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22031
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Schelling made organisms central to nature, because mere mechanism could never produce them
[Schelling, by Pinkard]
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4179
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The essence of nature is the will to life itself
[Schopenhauer]
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17649
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If the world is one it has many aspects, and if there are many worlds they will collect into one
[Goodman]
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15822
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The concept of physical necessity is basic to both causation, and to the concept of nature
[Chisholm]
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17305
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I take what is fundamental to be the whole spatiotemporal manifold and its fields
[Schaffer,J]
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7478
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Greek philosophers invented the concept of 'nature' as their special subject
[Watson]
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22198
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Aristotelian physics has circular celestial motion and linear earthly motion
[Gorham]
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