Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Practical Necessity' and 'Letter to Bramhall'

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5 ideas

9. Objects / C. Structure of Objects / 2. Hylomorphism / a. Hylomorphism

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A chair is wood, and its shape is the form; it isn't 'compounded' of the matter and form [Hobbes]

9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 15. Against Essentialism

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Essence is just an artificial word from logic, giving a way of thinking about substances [Hobbes]

10. Modality / A. Necessity / 10. Impossibility

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Necessity implies possibility, but in experience it matters which comes first [Williams,B]

26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 5. Infinite in Nature

1748	Archelaus was the first person to say that the universe is boundless [Archelaus, by Diog. Laertius]

27. Natural Reality / G. Biology / 3. Evolution

5989	Archelaus said life began in a primeval slime [Archelaus, by Schofield]