Rethinking the Nature of Substance

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Tag: nominalism

  • [Old] Chapter 1 part 2 (version-0.2)

    [Old] Chapter 1 part 2 (version-0.2)

    An early draft of deprecated chapter about alchemy, copied from Wikipedia to help me develop my own ideas…

  • [Old] Foreword: The Story So Far!

    [Old] Foreword: The Story So Far!

    The original book concept was big and ambitious. I tried to simplify it. But each of its parts increasingly appeared to form a single coherent whole. So I am now in the challenging process of bringing all of its parts together in such a way that each part illuminates all of the others, enabling their…

  • Space and Counterspace – by Nick Thomas – Ch.1 – Part 6 – Heisenberg & Goethe

    Space and Counterspace – by Nick Thomas – Ch.1 – Part 6 – Heisenberg & Goethe

    By way of further support for the importance of qualia in scientific endeavour, Nick Thomas refers us, in his fourteenth paragraph, to the authority of Werner Heisenberg. …

  • [Old] Greek & Medieval Ideas

    [Old] Greek & Medieval Ideas

    Ancient Greek physics – developing an understanding of knowledge – epistemology – and the natural world – physics – a world of beings – entities which exist – Plato and Aristotle expressed the same holistic ideas – from different perspectives. The essence of things – ousia – thinghood. Also the concepts of matter, atoms, and…