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The End of Epicurean Infinity: Critical Reflections on the Epicurean Infinite Universe [PDF]
, 2018 In contrast to other ancient philosophers, Epicurus and his followers famously maintained the infinity of matter, and consequently of worlds. This was inferred from the infinity of space, because they believed that a limited amount of matter would ...
Bakker, Frederik
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Quantum Gravity Phenomenology, Lorentz Invariance and Discreteness
, 2003 Contrary to what is often stated, a fundamental spacetime discreteness need not contradict Lorentz invariance. A causal set's discreteness is in fact locally Lorentz invariant, and we recall the reasons why.
Amelino-Camelia G. +5 more
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, 2005 Encyclopedia article briefly summarizing the history of atomism from antiquity to ...
Johnson, Monte
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Deadly Lifeworlds Meet Palliative Politics: Struggle in Circulation
Antipode, Volume 57, Issue 6, Page 2326-2348, November 2025.Abstract This paper locates acute and ongoing crises of coloniality and ecology within struggles over circulation that are anchored in infrastructure. If infrastructure organises movement—including its constraint in carceral forms—then it is also a linchpin for materialising distinct regimes of motion (Nail 2020a; Marx in Motion: A New Materialist ...
Deborah Cowen
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...Brevique Adnotatione Critica...: a preliminary history of the Oxford classical texts [PDF]
, 2007 On 3 July 1896, at one of the less regular meetings of the Delegates of Oxford University Press (OUP) held during the Long Vacation, approval was given to publication of the Oxford Classical Texts (OCT) series.
Whitaker, G.
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Kant's nutshell argument for idealism
Noûs, Volume 59, Issue 3, Page 652-677, September 2025.Abstract The significance or vacuity of the statement, “Everything has just doubled in size,” attracted considerable attention last century from scientists and philosophers. Presenting his conventionalism in geometry, Poincaré insisted on the emptiness of a hypothesis that all objects have doubled in size overnight.
Desmond Hogan
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Epicurus and Lucretius on the Creation of the Cosmos [PDF]
Философия и космология, 2015 : Although in the extants of Epicurus there is not a direct mention to the atomic swerve, other sources, among them Lucretius, confirm that the Athenian philosopher foresaw in the presence of this unpredictable atomic movement the solution for the ...
Eliopoulos Panos
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Cosmologie et modèle biologique chez Lucrèce : dire l'unité du monde
Lexis, 2023 The present article tackles the issue of the unity and cohesion of the world as it is evoked by Lucretius in the De Rerum Natura. Through this work, we would like to show that the philosopher offers an original solution to this question by using a ...
Joncheray, Anne Claire
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The Chemical Record, Volume 25, Issue 7, July 2025.The radical Pietist Johann Conrad Dippel was a self‐proclaimed adept – a maker of gold and the philosophers’ stone. He was also a magister of theology, a doctor of medicine, and a self‐taught chemist, who coinvented the pigment Prussian Blue together with Johann von Diesbach, became known for his animal pyrolysis oil, his wonder‐wound balm, his ...
Curt Wentrup
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The Living in Lucretius’ De rerum natura. Animals’ ataraxia and Humans’ Distress
Relations, 2014 In trying to comprehend the human role among other living beings from an antispeciesist point of view it is possible to look back to those thinkers who, far before our times, had already considered other living beings from a non-anthropocentric ...
Alma Massaro
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