CLST 214 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Reductionism, Monism, Rarefaction
21 Aug 2016
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**phlogiston know kuhn"s structure be able to explain each stage in a sentence why that challenges our notion of scientific progress presocratics- philosophy before plato. Most pre-socratic philosophers thought that principles of all things were materials. Of which all things that exist are and from which they first came to be, and into which they are finally dissolved, that whose substance remains although the attributes change. Nothing is created nor destroyed since something of this nature always remains. Beginning of theory of matter and subatomic particles. Water, seeds of everything have a moist nature, water is the principle of moist things. Heat itself is generated from and lives on moisture. He explains that this is why the earth rests on water. Observed that the food of all things is moist. Spoken by aristotle, but don"t know where aristotle got this information from. Thales could not have used the word principle".
