PHIL 1204 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Anaximander, Parallel Postulate, Brownian Motion
16 Apr 2018
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Atoms have primary qualities: primary quality: properties a thing has based purely on its physical configuration. Atoms have no secondary qualities: properties we ascribe to a thing based on the interaction between its primary qualities and our senses. Things have secondary qualities only because of the arrangements of their atoms, and because of the interaction between their atoms and our sense organs. Water can take the forms of gas, liquid or solid. But water has essential properties that are inconsistent with essential properties of some things in reality: Building blocks of reality must be consistent with all things in reality. None of these is consistent with all the objects in the world. Democritus took a different approach: ultimate constituents are something unfamiliar to us, so not inconsistent with anything in reality theoretical posit . But aristotle endorsed empedocles" theory, and his views prevailed until 17th. Robert boyle (1627-1691) english scientist corpuscular theory of matter .
