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  • ABSURDITYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/logics/ABSURDITY

    absurdum, which contradicts the common Sense of Mankind; the other particular, which gives the Lye to some one or more Philosophers; e.g., Aristotle. — The latter sort may be a real Truth. ABSURDITY

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Logics

  • ARCHETYPEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARCHETYPE

    used for thestandard or original weight, by which the other weights are to be adjusted and examined. See STANDARD. The philosophers, particularly the Platonists, talk of an archetypal world; meaning, the world, such as it existed in the divine mind, or...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • APPEARANCEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/APPEARANCE

    maintain, that the sensible Qualities of Bodies are only Appearances; and the like Doctrine is held by some later Philosophers. See ACADEMIC and QUALITY. See also BODY, EXTERNAL WORLD, etc. Our Errors arise chiefly from a too hasty and precipitate...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • ALTERATIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics/ALTERATION

    Terms expressing an Acquisition or Loss of the essential Qualities of a thing. See GENERATION and CORRUPTION. The modern Philosophers, after the ancient Chemists and Corpuscularians, hold all Alteration to be effected by means of local Motion: According...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Physics

  • ANNIHILATIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANNIHILATION

    ALTERATION, CORRUPTION, etc. Bodies naturally admit of Changes and Alterations in their form; but not of Annihilation. Philosophers object against this Notion of Annihilation; in that it supposes an Act required thereto: Whereas, according to them,...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • ASSIMILATIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASSIMILATION

    Bodies convert other duly disposed Bodies, into a Nature like, or homogeneous to their own. See MOTION, BODY, etc. Some Philosophers call it, the Motion of Multiplication, meaning, that Bodies are hereby multiplied, not in Number, but in Bulk; which is...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • AEONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AEON

    Age, and Duration. But some ancient Heretics have affixed another Idea to it; in order to which, they have made use of the Philosophy of Plato: giving Reality to the Ideas, which that Philosopher had imagined in God; and even personifying them, and...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • ALGEBRAhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ALGEBRA

    are incapable of Fraction.Some, with M. d'Herbelot, are of Opinion, that Algebra takes its Name from Geber, a celebrated Philosopher, Chemist, and Mathematician, whom the Arabs call Giaber; and who is supposed to have been the Inventor.—Others, from...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • ÆONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ÆON

    AGE, and DURATION. But some ancient Heretics have affixed another Idea to it; in order to which, they have made use of the Philosophy of Plato: giving Reality to the Ideas, which that Philosopher had imagined in God; and even personifying them, and...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • ANDROGYNEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANDROGYNE

    split each of them into two; but so as that each Moiety still retained a strong Passion to be re-united: and hence that Philosopher derives the natural Love between the two Sexes. The Astrologers also give the Appellation Androgynus to such of the...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • ANTINOMASYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/rhetoric/ANTINOMASY

    a Figure in Rhetoric, whereby a Noun Appellative is used instead of a proper Name. See FIGURE and NAME. Thus we say, the Philosopher, instead of Aristotle; the Orator, for Cicero; the Apostle, for St.Paul, etc. Thus also we call a voluptuous Person, a...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Rhetoric

  • AMBERhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/natural-history/AMBER

    ancient Naturalist, is confirmed by the Observations of many of the modern ones; particularly the learned Father Camelli. Philosoph. Transact. N° 290. Some have imagined it a Concretion of the ‘Tears of Birds; others, the Urine of a Beast; others, the...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Natural History

  • ALMANACKhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ALMANACK

    relating to Civil Affairs, either of States or private Persons, in Terms either express or covert,’ See ASTROLOGY. In the Philosoph. Collec. we have a perpetual Almanack described by Mr. R. Wood. ALMANACK

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • ALLANTOIShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/biotechnology/anatomy/ALLANTOIS

    who believed its Existence had not before fully found it out; and also an answer to those who yet deny its reality. See PHILOSOPH. Transact. N° 271.The Word is derived from allas, Farcimen, a Gut, and eidos, Forma, Shape; because, in many Brutes, it is...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Anatomy
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