10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PLENIST»
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Fundamentals Of Kant's Theory Of Matter Kant's theory of matter comprises a
threefold commitment to a dynamist, a plenist, and a continualist thesis. The
dynamist thesis says that extension and impenetrability are not primary
properties of ...
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Descartes-Agonistes: Physico-mathematics, Method & ...
Le Monde and the correspondence leading to it reflect Descartes' growing
awareness of and commitment to this style. To further specify Descartes' plenist-
realism, we should also note that physicomathematical procedures are not
banned, ...
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The Oxford Handbook of the History of Physics
As such, the vortex mechanics exemplifies what we may term a 'plenist–realist'
style of explanation which permeates the entirety of Descartes' natural-
philosophical project (Schuster, 2013, 373–84). This style prohibits mathematical
...
Jed Z. Buchwald, Robert Fox, 2013
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Oxford Studies in Early Modern Philosophy
... against Bayle's objections to thinking matter, and even for active matter) are
compatible with a plenist materialist picture of the world. If you began with a
Hobbesian conviction that the natural world contains only extended material
things, ...
Daniel Garber, Donald Rutherford, 2012
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Poiesis and Enchantment in Topological Matter
Adapting Whitehead's observation “actual entities perish”5 to a plenist ontology,
then, we should say “materials” perish, which should seem no more and no less
mysterious than saying that yogurt has a shelf life. In the next section, I present ...
Xin Wei Sha, Arkady Plotnitsky, 2013
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The Mechanisation of Aristotelianism: The Late Aristotelian ...
Nevertheless, Hobbes emphatically rejects Descartes' description of the space in
which his plenist universe is set. According to Descartes, space, internal place
and corporeal substance are names designating one and the same thing.1-1 The
...
Cornelis Hendrik Leijenhorst, Cees Leijenhorst, 2002
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The Bloomsbury Companion to Hobbes
Hobbes has become known as a “plenist” for having defended this proposition,
although as will be illustrated below, the question of the fullness of the universe
has from it's very inception been accompanied by ambiguities. Hobbes's views
on ...
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Leviathan and the Air-Pump: Hobbes, Boyle, and the ...
Thus, he built a plenist ontology, and, in the process, erected a materialistic
theory of knowledge in which the foundations of knowledge were notions of
causes, and those causes were matter and motion. An enterprise entitled to the
name of ...
Steven Shapin, Simon Schaffer, 2011
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Walker's Critical Pronouncing Dictionary and Expositor of ...
Plenist,. pianist,. s. 544. One. that. holds. all. space to be full of matter. Plenitude,
plen-ne-tude, s. Fulness, the contrary to vacuity ; repletion, animal fulness,
plethory ; - exuberance, abundance, completeness. Plenteous, plen-tshe-us, a.
263.
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Cultural Readings of Restoration and Eighteenth-Century ...
... of vacuum as inhabiting the structure of matter provides a metaphor of the
voluntarist ethic he sought to foster. So Shapin and Schaffer's argument must
suppose a secure analytical ratio between the Hobbesian cosmology (plenist
and ...
Deborah Payne Fisk, J. Douglas Canfield, 2010
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A brief note on Nothing.
The nature of empty space was one of the cruxes in the debate about nothing. Aristotle's plenist views were, in great measure, supported by ... «The Fortnightly Review, Aug 12»
