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Ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Anti-Semite and Jew' and 'The Spirit of the Laws (rev. 1757)'

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26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 5. Infinite in Nature

1748	Archelaus was the first person to say that the universe is boundless [Archelaus, by Diog. Laertius]
	Full Idea: Archelaus was the first person to say that the universe is boundless.
	From: report of Archelaus (fragments/reports [c.450 BCE]) by Diogenes Laertius - Lives of Eminent Philosophers 02.Ar.3

26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 8. Scientific Essentialism / c. Essence and laws

19958	Laws are the necessary relations that derive from the nature of things [Montesquieu]
	Full Idea: Laws, in the broadest meaning of the term, are the necessary relations that derive from the nature of things.
	From: Baron de Montesquieu (The Spirit of the Laws (rev. 1757) [1748], 01.01)
	A reaction: Montesquieu is about to discuss social laws, but this is the clearest statement I have ever met of the essentialist view of the laws of nature.