PHIL 1204 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Atomism
12 Apr 2018
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Creation in judeo-christian tradition genesis 1: 1-2 formless void, there was darkness over the deep, with a divine wind (cid:498)in the beginning god created heaven and earth. Now the earth was a sweeping over the waters. God said (cid:499) (cid:498)when god began creating heaven and earth, the earth being then a formless waters, god said (cid:499) void, with darkness over the deep and a divine wind sweeping over the. Among all the possible states of the universe, isn"t the state of nothing the least likely, while the states with something are innumerable? (cid:498)the nature of things(cid:499) Nothing comes to be out of nothing (i, 150) All sensation and all change is caused by the physical impact of one body on another (i, 304: wind, odor, evaporation, erosion. So there must be tiny particles that are too small to see, to account for these changes. Greek atomism is conceptual: not experimental. Experimental evidence for atomism comes much later.
