The Problem of Life: An Essay in the Origins of Biological ThoughtMacmillan, 1976 - 343 Seiten |
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... move with utmost rapidity : ' swift as thought ' . Aristotle reports Democritus ' opinion thus : ... the round ones ( atoms ) are soul , because shapes of this kind are best able to slip through anything and to move other things by ...
... move with utmost rapidity : ' swift as thought ' . Aristotle reports Democritus ' opinion thus : ... the round ones ( atoms ) are soul , because shapes of this kind are best able to slip through anything and to move other things by ...
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... move faster over an equal space , and in the ratio which their magnitudes bear to each other . Therefore they will also move through the void with this ratio of speed . But this is impossible ; for why should one move faster ? ( In ...
... move faster over an equal space , and in the ratio which their magnitudes bear to each other . Therefore they will also move through the void with this ratio of speed . But this is impossible ; for why should one move faster ? ( In ...
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... move in such a way that the end , the real or apparent good , is achieved . Physiological psychology But how does the moving soul cause the body to move ? Aristotle's answer is to be found in On the Motion of Animals . In this short and ...
... move in such a way that the end , the real or apparent good , is achieved . Physiological psychology But how does the moving soul cause the body to move ? Aristotle's answer is to be found in On the Motion of Animals . In this short and ...
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Preface | 8 |
The act of imagination | 8 |
The palaeontology of some key words | 17 |
Urheberrecht | |
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