Combining Texts
Ideas for
'Material Beings', 'The Principles of Chemistry' and 'Truth-maker Realism'
expand these ideas
|
start again
|
choose
another area for these texts
display all the ideas for this combination of texts
16 ideas
27. Natural Reality / B. Modern Physics / 3. Chromodynamics / a. Chromodynamics
|
17563
|
The strong force pulls, but also pushes apart if nucleons get too close together [Inwagen]
|
27. Natural Reality / B. Modern Physics / 4. Standard Model / a. Concept of matter
|
17402
|
Mendeleev saw three principles in nature: matter, force and spirit (where the latter seems to be essence) [Mendeleev, by Scerri]
|
27. Natural Reality / F. Chemistry / 2. Modern Elements
|
17399
|
Elements don't survive in compounds, but the 'substance' of the element does [Mendeleev]
|
|
17559
|
Is one atom a piece of gold, or is a sizable group of atoms required? [Inwagen]
|
27. Natural Reality / F. Chemistry / 3. Periodic Table
|
17400
|
Mendeleev focused on abstract elements, not simple substances, so he got to their essence [Mendeleev, by Scerri]
|
|
17401
|
Mendeleev had a view of elements which allowed him to overlook some conflicting observations [Mendeleev]
|
27. Natural Reality / G. Biology / 2. Life
|
17580
|
One's mental and other life is centred on the brain, unlike any other part of the body [Inwagen]
|
|
17584
|
Some events are only borderline cases of lives [Inwagen]
|
|
17569
|
Unlike waves, lives are 'jealous'; it is almost impossible for them to overlap [Inwagen]
|
|
17586
|
At the lower level, life trails off into mere molecular interaction [Inwagen]
|
|
17568
|
A tumour may spread a sort of life, but it is not a life, or an organism [Inwagen]
|
|
17581
|
Being part of an organism's life is a matter of degree, and vague [Inwagen]
|
|
17570
|
The chemical reactions in a human life involve about sixteen elements [Inwagen]
|
|
17585
|
Life is vague at both ends, but could it be totally vague? [Inwagen]
|
|
17567
|
A flame is like a life, but not nearly so well individuated [Inwagen]
|
|
17576
|
If God were to 'reassemble' my atoms of ten years ago, the result would certainly not be me [Inwagen]
|