Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'On Motion', 'Kant's Analytic' and 'Letter to Pythocles'

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5 ideas

14. Science / D. Explanation / 3. Best Explanation / c. Against best explanation

21386

We should accept as explanations all the plausible ways in which something could come about [Epicurus]

27. Natural Reality / B. Modern Physics / 1. Relativity / a. Special relativity

12709

Motion is not absolute, but consists in relation [Leibniz]

27. Natural Reality / C. Space / 4. Substantival Space

8592	Empty space is measurable in ways in which empty time necessarily is not [Bennett, by Shoemaker]

27. Natural Reality / E. Cosmology / 1. Cosmology

14051

A cosmos is a collection of stars and an earth, with some sort of boundary, movement and shape [Epicurus]

28. God / C. Attitudes to God / 3. Deism

1828	God does not intervene in heavenly movements, but is beyond all action and perfectly happy [Epicurus]