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'Metaphysics', 'fragments/reports' and 'On the Nature of the Universe'
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27. Natural Reality / A. Classical Physics / 1. Mechanics / a. Explaining movement
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Atoms move themselves [Lucretius]
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5696
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If there were no space there could be no movement, or even creation [Lucretius]
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27. Natural Reality / A. Classical Physics / 2. Thermodynamics / d. Entropy
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It is quicker to break things up than to assemble them [Lucretius]
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27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 2. Passage of Time / a. Experience of time
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We can only sense time by means of movement, or its absence [Lucretius]
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27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 3. Parts of Time / a. Beginning of time
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It is hard to see how either time or movement could come into existence or be destroyed [Aristotle]
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27. Natural Reality / E. Cosmology / 1. Cosmology
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This earth is very unlikely to be the only one created [Lucretius]
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27. Natural Reality / E. Cosmology / 2. Eternal Universe
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Nothing can be created by divine power out of nothing [Lucretius]
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27. Natural Reality / E. Cosmology / 3. The Beginning
620
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The first mover is necessary, and because it is necessary it is good [Aristotle]
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Something which both moves and is moved is intermediate, so it follows that there must be an unmoved mover [Aristotle]
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613
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Even if the world is caused by fate, mind and nature are still prior causes [Aristotle]
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