Cyclopædia
Assuming cartesianism is required, the following 14 results were found.
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CARTESIANShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/CARTESIANS
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CARTESIAN Philosophyhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/CARTESIAN-Philosophy
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ACCIDENThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics/philosophy/ACCIDENT
modifications thereof, in no wise distinct from it. An Accident without a subject must be a contradiction. And hence, Cartesianism is branded as contrary to the faith. See CARTESIANISM. Various expedients have been invented by the Cartesians, to account...
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AETHERhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AETHER
of Bodies; and thus to make an absolute Plenum in the Universe. See MATERIA SUBTILIS; see also PLENUM; see also CARTESIANISM, &c.But Sir Isaac Newton overturns this Opinion, from divers Considerations; by showing, that the Celestial Spaces are void of...
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ACADEMICKShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ACADEMICKS
he will not always doubt; and that he only doubts at first, that his determinations afterwards may be the surer. See CARTESIANISM. 'In Aristotle's Philosophy, say the followers of Des Cartes, there is nothing doubted of; everything is accounted for, and...
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ACCELERATIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/mechanics/ACCELERATION
pulses of a subtle ethereal matter, which is continually acting on the falling body and impelling it downwards. See CARTESIANISM, ETHER, ELEMENT, MATTER, SUBTILE, etc. After all, the cause of acceleration is nothing mysterious; the principle of...
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AUTOMATONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AUTOMATON
αὐτός, ipse, and ματόν, facile, whence αὐτόματον, spontaneous.—The Cartesians maintain brutes to be mere automata. See CARTESIANISM, CAUSE, etc. AUTOMATON
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ANIMA MUNDIhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANIMA%20MUNDI
ANIMA MUNDI, q.d. Soul of the World, or of the Universe, is a certain pure, ethereal Substance or Spirit, diffused, according to many of the ancient Philosophers, through the Mass of the World, informing, actuating, and uniting the diverse parts thereof...
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ARISTOTELIANhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARISTOTELIAN
ARISTOTELIAN,something that relates to Aristotle—Thus we say the Aristotelian Philosophy, an Aristotelian Dogma, etc. The Philosopher from whom the Denomination arises, the Son of Nicomachus, born in the Year of the World 3670, at Stagira, a Town of...
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AIRhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics/AIR
AIR, Air, in Physics, a thin, fluid, transparent, compressible, and dilatable Body; surrounding the terraqueous Globe to a considerable Height. See EARTH, and TERRAQUEOUS. It's considered by some of the Ancients as an Element; but then, by Element they...
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ACTIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics/ACTION
ACTION, Actio, in Physics, is the production of an effect or the manner of an active cause. See ACTION and ACTIVE. The idea of action is so familiar to us that a definition may as easily obscure as explain it. Some Schoolmen, however, attempt to...
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ATTRIBUTEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics/philosophy/ATTRIBUTE
ATTRIBUTE, ATTRIBUTUM, in Philosophy, a Property which agrees to some Person, or Thing; or a Quality, which determines something to be after a certain Manner. See PROPERTY and QUALITY. Thus, Understanding is an Attribute of Mind; Figure, an Attribute of...
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Physicshttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics
PHYSICS, or the Doctrine of CAUSES; as Nature, Law, &c. Occasions or Means, as Principle, Matter, Form, &c. Their Composition or Constitution, in Element, Atom, Particle, Body. Chaos, World, Universe, Space, Vacuum, &c. Properties of Body, as...
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VIEW OF KNOWLEDGEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/view-of-knowledge
1 METEOROLOGY, or the History of AIR and ATMOSPHERE: including, 1°, that of its Contents, Æther,Fire,Vapour, Exhalation, &c. 2°, Meteors form'd therein, as Cloud, Rain, Shower, Drop, Snow, Hail, Dew, Damp, &c. Rainbow, Parhelion, Halo, Thunder, Water-...
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- Category: Introduction