10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PLENISM»
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plenism in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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Leviathan and the Air-Pump: Hobbes, Boyle, and the ...
because anomalous suspension posed the issue of plenism in an acute form.
Stroup perceptively argues that it showed that the hypotheses of the spring of the
air and of the void were “mutually inconsistent.” Huygens, “one of the earliest and
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Steven Shapin, Simon Schaffer, 2011
Two broad archetypes of substance metaphysics are available: the atomistic and
the plenic. Atomism is the base of the worldview that has come to be known as
Newtonian. Plenism underlies some of the main approaches to a worldview in ...
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Symmetry, Structure, and Spacetime
18). Generally, space (in the sense of vacuum) would simply be defined by a lack
of material or mass. Advocating (1) would imply plenism, and could perhaps be
achieved nowadays with a field ontology; for fields extend to cover all of space.
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WE HAVE NEVER BEEN MODERN
2.4 The Mediation of the Laboratory This political interpretation of Hobbes's
plenism does not suffice to make Shapin and Schaffer's book a solid foundation
for comparative anthropology. Any good historian of ideas could have done the
same ...
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Molecular Biology in Narrative Form: A Study of the ...
However, 1 would argue that the debate is as much rhetorical, and the
terminology of the conflict can be formulated semioti- cally. In semiotic terms, the
conflict would look very different. It would be about the binaries of vacuum and
plenism, ...
Priya Venkatesan Hays, 2006
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Studies on Locke: Sources, Contemporaries, and Legacy: In ...
Their reactions to Cartesian extension and plenism merit our attention since they
typically show ambivalent attitudes toward Descartes among English natural
philosophers before Locke.25 Reactions to Cartesian Extension: Power and
Boyle It ...
Sarah Hutton, Paul Schuurman, 2008
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Literature and Religious Culture in Seventeenth-Century England
Throughout his career, Donne sustains no consistent attitude toward the “new
philosophy,” but in the Devotions, he struggles to interweave a theory of natural
plenism and holism with his belief in the ceremonial unity of the church. This
fusion ...
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The Mechanisation of Aristotelianism: The Late Aristotelian ...
Second, with respect to the medium, Hobbes felt he had to uphold an absolute
plenism. Around March 1648, Hobbes witnessed a vacuum experiment
conducted earlier by Torricelli, Pascal and Roberval. Hobbes describes this
experiment in ...
Cornelis Hendrik Leijenhorst, Cees Leijenhorst, 2002
For the experience of the deepest Nothingness entails these affirmations also. So
it would be better to call mysticism a nihilism/plenism, since it is the dyad taken
together. But since it is foremost the transcendence of this dyad at the essential ...
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Controversy Spaces: A Model of Scientific and Philosophical ...
The rejection of the vacuum, identified with nothingness, brings as a
consequence plenism in the radical sense of the Cartesians: the identification of
matter and extension. In other words, it introduces plenism into the mechanicism
ofDescartes ...
NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PLENISM»
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plenism is used in the context of the following news items.
What Heinrich Rudolf Hertz taught us about nothingness
... attacked by Thomas Hobbes and René Descartes, who each embraced a philosophy known as plenism, which left no space for emptiness. «Christian Science Monitor, Feb 12»
