corpuscularian Wikipedia (kɔːˌpʌskjʊˈlɛərɪən) n (General Physics)physicsan adherent of corpuscular theory adj corpuscular Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 200...
Corpuscularianism was associated by its leading proponents with the idea that some of the properties that objects appear to have are artifacts of the perceiving mind: "secondary" qualities as distinguished from "primary" qualities.isaac newton
6. Descartes, Basso, and Toletus: Three Kinds of Corpuscularians was published in Descartes and the Last Scholastics on page 123.
After describing the corpuscularian background of Berkeley's work (in, for example, the writing of Boyle, Newton, Locke, and Malebranche), I consider whether Berkeley can endorse the existence of immaterial atoms or corpuscles. I suggest that he hopes to avoid a definite commitment. He wants...
analogy depend upon the sub-microscopic textures of ordinary bodies and upon the rapidly moving, imperceptibly tiny corpuscles that surround these bodies.2 Locke's sympathy for corpuscularianism comes out clearly where he describes the implications of our inability to perceive the sub-microscopic ...
From the early 17th century onwards, the dominant natural philosophy was mechanism: the view that all explanations must ultimately take the form of a reduction to a very economical range of features at the micro-corpuscularian level, e.g., in the paradigm case, size, speed, and direction of...
The problem for the constructors of any general conceptual system is to decide which, if any, of the qualities perceived in objects or the properties detected by instruments make up the 'thing-hood' of the basic individuals of the general conceptual system, what are in fact the fundamental ...
doi:10.1111/J.1468-0149.1990.TB00272.XGeorge S. BotterillJohn Wiley & Sons, LtdPhilosophical Books
The Corpuscularian Philosophydoi:10.1007/978-1-349-81640-8_2These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.Harré, R.
6. Descartes, Basso, and Toletus: Three Kinds of Corpusculariansdoi:10.1163/ej.9789004207240.i-358.44Roger AriewBrill