Philosophical Works, Volume 1Cambridge Press, 1967 - Philosophy |
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... motion , not as we meet with it in nature in the movements of the stars and the flowing of springs , but as a motion contrived by human industry . Numbers of people have believed this to be possible , their idea being that the earth is ...
... motion , not as we meet with it in nature in the movements of the stars and the flowing of springs , but as a motion contrived by human industry . Numbers of people have believed this to be possible , their idea being that the earth is ...
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... motion of its parts . For its partition by thought alone makes no difference to it ; but all the variation in matter , or diversity in its forms , depends on motion . This the philosophers have doubtless observed , inasmuch as they have ...
... motion of its parts . For its partition by thought alone makes no difference to it ; but all the variation in matter , or diversity in its forms , depends on motion . This the philosophers have doubtless observed , inasmuch as they have ...
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... motion without action and that in rest there is cessation of action , the person thus seated may more properly be said to be in repose than in motion , since he is not conscious of any action in himself . PRINCIPLE XXV . What movement ...
... motion without action and that in rest there is cessation of action , the person thus seated may more properly be said to be in repose than in motion , since he is not conscious of any action in himself . PRINCIPLE XXV . What movement ...
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