Cyclopædia
Assuming cartesian 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
is from a white body, and that it existed in the beginning without this subject, having been created four days before. The Cartesians, to a man, combat the notion of Absolute Accidents, it being their doctrine that the essence of matter consists of...
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AETHERhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AETHER
and severer Philosophers choose to set it aside: and in lieu thereof, substitute other more determinate ones. Thus, the Cartesians use the Term Materia Subtilis - which is their Ether: And Sir Isaac Newton, sometimes, a Subtle Spirit, as in the Close 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
will be the same in both cases, notwithstanding the greater vicinity to the centre in the one than in the other case. The Cartesians account for the acceleration from the repeated pulses of a subtle ethereal matter, which is continually acting on the...
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AUTOMATONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AUTOMATON
WATCH, etc. The Word is Greek, αὐτόματον, compounded of 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
Influences, in order to account for the Origin of Forms, and the secret Powers of Bodies. See FORM, PERIPATETIC, etc. The Cartesians have their subtle Matter, which answers to most of the Uses, and Intentions of Plato’s Anima Mundi; being supposed to...
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ARISTOTELIANhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARISTOTELIAN
and PERIPATETIC. The Aristotelians and their Dogmas prevail to this Day, in the Schools; malgré all the Efforts of the Cartesians, Newtonians, and other Corpuscularians. See SCHOOL, NEWTONIAN, CARTESIAN, CORPUSCULARIAN, etc. THE PRINCIPLES OF...
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AIRhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics/AIR
are easily moved among themselves;which is the Definition of a Fluid. See FLUID.—See also SOUND, &c. Those who, with the Cartesians, make Fluidity consist in a perpetual intestine Motion of the Parts, find Air also answers to that Character: Thus, in a...
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ACTIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics/ACTION
as Corruption, Fermentation, Putrefaction, Dissolution, etc. See FERMENTATION, PUTREFACTION, DISSOLUTION, etc. The Cartesians resolve all physical action into metaphysical: Bodies, according to them, do not act on one another; the action all comes...
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ATTRIBUTEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics/philosophy/ATTRIBUTE
etc. The other Attributes are called accidental ones. See ACCIDENT. Mr. Lock endeavours to prove, that Thinking, which the Cartesians make the essential Attribute of the Mind, is only an accidental one. See THINKING, MIND, SOUL, etc. ATTRIBUTE
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Physicshttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics
Degeneration, Transmutation, &c. Systems or Hypothecs hereof, Corpuscular, Epicurean, Aristotelian, Peripatetic, Cartesian, Newtonian, &c.---- Occult and Fictitious Qualities, Powers, and Operations, Antiperistasis, Sympathy, Antipathy, Archæus, &c....
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VIEW OF KNOWLEDGEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/view-of-knowledge
Degeneration, Transmutation, &c. Systems or Hypothecs hereof, Corpuscular, Epicurean, Aristotelian, Peripatetic, Cartesian, Newtonian, &c.---- Occult and Fictitious Qualities, Powers, and Operations, Antiperistasis, Sympathy, Antipathy, Archæus, &c....
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Introduction