Philosophy 2203E Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: The Frontier Post, Horizontal Coordinate System, Empiricism
3 Oct 2016
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I will reveal those atoms from which nature creates all things & increases & feeds them. & into which, when they perish, nature again resolves them" -- Simple & indestructible units (not composed of parts) Seems to place more emphasis on material & proximate causes of things & less emphasis of formal & final causes. Closer to the sense of cause" used in the modern physical sciences (though perhaps not the life sciences & social sciences) Nothing can be created by divine power out of nothing". Surely, because it is only after specific seeds have drifted together at their own proper time that every created thing stands revealed, when the season is favorable" look around at the world we can actually observe ex. If the environment is right then a seed can grow. The environment needs to have all of these atoms & stuff to allow events to happen.
