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27. Natural Reality / C. Space / 1. Void
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There is no void in the cosmos, but indefinite void outside it [Zeno of Citium, by Ps-Plutarch]
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27. Natural Reality / E. Cosmology / 1. Cosmology
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Things are more perfect if they have reason; nothing is more perfect than the universe, so it must have reason [Zeno of Citium]
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Since the cosmos produces what is alive and rational, it too must be alive and rational [Zeno of Citium]
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27. Natural Reality / G. Biology / 3. Evolution
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Maybe bodies are designed by accident, and the creatures that don't work are destroyed [Empedocles, by Aristotle]
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27. Natural Reality / G. Biology / 5. Species
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Tigers may lack all the properties we originally used to identify them [Kripke]
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The original concept of 'cat' comes from paradigmatic instances [Kripke]
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'Tiger' designates a species, and merely looking like the species is not enough [Kripke]
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