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Ideas for 'fragments/reports', '21: First Epistle of Peter' and 'De Corpore (Elements, First Section)'

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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 / A. Speculations on Nature / 6. Early Matter Theories / b. Prime matter

16600	Prime matter is body considered with mere size and extension, and potential [Hobbes]
	Full Idea: Prime matter signifies body considered without the consideration of any form or accident except only magnitude or extension, and aptness to receive form and accidents.
	From: Thomas Hobbes (De Corpore (Elements, First Section) [1655], 2.08.24)
	A reaction: I take 'considered without' to indicate that he thinks of it as a psychological abstraction, rather than some actual existing thing.