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'fragments/reports', 'Letters to Wagner' and 'Essay Conc Human Understanding (2nd Ed)'
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27. Natural Reality / A. Classical Physics / 1. Mechanics / a. Explaining movement
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Motion is just change of distance between two things [Locke]
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27. Natural Reality / A. Classical Physics / 1. Mechanics / c. Forces
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Boyle and Locke suspect forces of being occult [Locke, by Alexander,P]
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An insurmountable force in a body keeps our hands apart when we handle it [Locke]
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27. Natural Reality / C. Space / 5. Relational Space
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We can locate the parts of the universe, but not the whole thing [Locke]
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27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 1. Nature of Time / h. Presentism
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The past and the future subsist, but only the present exists [Chrysippus, by Plutarch]
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27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 3. Parts of Time / b. Instants
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An 'instant' is where we perceive no succession, and is the time of a single idea [Locke]
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27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 3. Parts of Time / d. Measuring time
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We can never show that two successive periods of time were equal [Locke]
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27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 3. Parts of Time / e. Present moment
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The present does not exist, so our immediate experience is actually part past and part future [Chrysippus, by Plutarch]
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Time is continous and infinitely divisible, so there cannot be a wholly present time [Chrysippus, by Stobaeus]
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27. Natural Reality / G. Biology / 3. Evolution
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It is inconceivable that unthinking matter could produce intelligence [Locke]
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