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2280 | Many causes are quite baffling, so it is absurd to deduce causes from final purposes [Descartes] |
Full Idea: God can make unnumerable things whose cause escapes me, and for this reason alone the entire class of causes which people customarily derive from a thing's "end", I judge to be utterly useless in physics. | |
From: René Descartes (Meditations [1641], §4.55) | |
A reaction: anti-Aristotle |
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 |
2272 | There must be at least as much in the cause as there is in the effect [Descartes] |
Full Idea: There must be at least as much in the cause as there is in the effect. | |
From: René Descartes (Meditations [1641], §3.49) |