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27. Natural Reality / A. Classical Physics / 1. Mechanics / a. Explaining movement

5706	Atoms move themselves [Lucretius]

5696	If there were no space there could be no movement, or even creation [Lucretius]

27. Natural Reality / A. Classical Physics / 2. Thermodynamics / d. Entropy

5700	It is quicker to break things up than to assemble them [Lucretius]

27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 2. Passage of Time / a. Experience of time

5698	We can only sense time by means of movement, or its absence [Lucretius]

27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 3. Parts of Time / a. Beginning of time

617	It is hard to see how either time or movement could come into existence or be destroyed [Aristotle]

27. Natural Reality / E. Cosmology / 1. Cosmology

5715	This earth is very unlikely to be the only one created [Lucretius]

27. Natural Reality / E. Cosmology / 2. Eternal Universe

5694	Nothing can be created by divine power out of nothing [Lucretius]

27. Natural Reality / E. Cosmology / 3. The Beginning

620	The first mover is necessary, and because it is necessary it is good [Aristotle]

619	Something which both moves and is moved is intermediate, so it follows that there must be an unmoved mover [Aristotle]

613	Even if the world is caused by fate, mind and nature are still prior causes [Aristotle]