PHIL 3210 Lecture Notes - The Guardians Of Time, Stamen, Illogic
22 Oct 2013
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Vitalism: everything is alive, all matter has a vital" component. Main targets; descartes, hobbes and the materialist philosophers. :in its simplest form, vitalism holds that living entities contain some fluid, or a distinctive amond living things. Touching on the cartesian of our philosophy. (66) Were plainly ignorant call body and matter (70) But if it be demanded of all those perfections. (70) Boyle: the corpuscular account of nature. The simplest theory is always the best theory. Corporeal things can"t be explained on the basis of fewer than two principles, and no principles can be more basic than matter and motion. (12) All things in world constructed of matter and motion. Rules of motion = the laws of nature. The phenomena of the world to mechanical laws. Matter in motion accounts for; motion, figure, size, poture, rest, order, and texture of large parts of matter, and all of its minute components.
