PHIL 030 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Atomism, Xenophanes
18 Apr 2017
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Empedocles : believes in the basic substances of the world. The whole world is made up of different things. These things come together in different shapes or proportions. They are not permanent, they are mixed. Examples of 2 forces that are similar to this: heat and cold. Like by like: to be able to perceive things in the world, we have to have the same elements in us as the things we are looking at. Affluences: signs that things in the world send us. Need causal process of perception. (we need to talk about how we perceive things in terms of cause and effect. ) The smallest units in the cosmos are atoms. Then there must be something that is infinitely divided. If i can still see particles, then it is not completely divided yet. If they are totally divided, then what you are left with is a bunch of infinitely small things that can"t be put together.
