Ideas from 'Against the Physicists (two books)' by Sextus Empiricus [180], by Theme Structure
[found in 'Against the Physicists/Against the Ethicists' by Sextus Empiricus (ed/tr Bury,R.G.) [Harvard Loeb 1997,0-674-99344-6]].
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9. Objects / C. Structure of Objects / 8. Parts of Objects / c. Wholes from parts
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Parts are not parts if their whole is nothing more than the parts
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12. Knowledge Sources / C. Rationalism / 1. Rationalism
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Some say motion is perceived by sense, but others say it is by intellect
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15. Nature of Minds / C. Capacities of Minds / 6. Idealisation
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If we try to conceive of a line with no breadth, it ceases to exist, and so has no length
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17. Mind and Body / D. Property Dualism / 4. Emergentism
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The incorporeal is not in the nature of body, and so could not emerge from it
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27. Natural Reality / A. Classical Physics / 1. Mechanics / a. Explaining movement
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A man walking backwards on a forwards-moving ship is moving in a fixed place
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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
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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
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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)
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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
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28. God / A. Divine Nature / 2. Divine Nature
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God must suffer to understand suffering
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All men agree that God is blessed, imperishable, happy and good
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28. God / A. Divine Nature / 3. Divine Perfections
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The Divine must lack the virtues of continence and fortitude, because they are not needed
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28. God / B. Proving God / 1. Proof of God
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God is defended by agreement, order, absurdity of denying God, and refutations
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28. God / B. Proving God / 2. Proofs of Reason / b. Ontological Proof critique
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God's sensations imply change, and hence perishing, which is absurd, so there is no such God
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God without virtue is absurd, but God's virtues will be better than God
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28. God / B. Proving God / 3. Proofs of Evidence / b. Teleological Proof
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The original substance lacked motion or shape, and was given these by a cause
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28. God / C. Attitudes to God / 4. God Reflects Humanity
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The perfections of God were extrapolations from mankind
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28. God / C. Attitudes to God / 5. Atheism
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Gods were invented as watchers of people's secret actions
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An incorporeal God could do nothing, and a bodily god would perish, so there is no God
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29. Religion / A. Polytheistic Religion / 1. Animism
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It is mad to think that what is useful to us, like lakes and rivers, are gods
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