Epicurus advanced the hypothesis of the spontaneous deflection of atoms from a straight trajectory. He made use of this hypothesis not only in cosmology and physics but also in ethics, where the deflection of atoms was regarded as the minimum of freedom possible within the framework of causal ...
Noteworthy is modern Cádiz, Gadir or Agadir in Phoenician (אגדר in the Hebrew alphabet), Gades in Latin, and Γάδειρα or Γήδειρα, originally read as a neuter plural, because the original meaning of the word seems to have been "walls," i.e. fortification....
As it tried to squeeze all the matter with greater force, it divided the world into the two hemispheres, and after that the atoms sorted themselves out, the lighter and finer ones in the universe floating above and becoming the Bright Air [Aither (Aether)] and the most rarefied Wind [...
Any information obtained otherwise than by the scientific method, although it may be true, the scientists will call “unscientific,” using this word as a smear word, by bringing in the connotation from its original [Greek] meaning, to imply that the information is false, or at any rate ...
It was in Alexandria that the Hebrew Bible was translated into Greek; the version was known as the Septuagint, a word meaning seventy, after the number of scholars said to have collaborated in the translation. 正是在亚历山大,希伯来圣经被翻译成了希腊语;这个版本被称为《七十士译本》,这个词意...
which takes part to bravery and rage and is belligerent, nearer the head, between the diaphragm and the neck because, being subordinate to reason and agreeing with it, this would strongly repress the greed” [34,35]. Remarkably, the word diaphragm made here its first appearance as a techn...
Democritus had already pointed to this in his famous saying “by convention sweet and by convention bitter, by convention hot, by convention cold, by convention color; but in reality atoms and void.” In other words, we have no firm basis for knowing that the attributes we agree that object...
Undoubtedly the two instances of water have the same meaning, but the word is denotes existence. Therefore the sentence means water is an existence. If fire cannot be water because the two words do not have the same meaning, water cannot exist because the two words mean different things. It...
For the atomists Democritus and Leucippus, the phenomenal world itself is a text, a surface of appearances that has to be analyzed into its permanent but invisible truth of atom and void, the stoicheia, "elements," "letters," of its invisible atoms.49 To reach truth one must distance on...
substituted air for water. Heraclitus of Ephesus, who flourished about 520 B.C.E., regarded fire as the fundamental principle. The writings of this philosopher “On Nature,” are among the oldest relics of Greek prose. From the difficulty of understanding his meaning, Heraclitus was called the...