- Corpuscularianism, also
known as
corpuscularism (from
Latin corpusculum 'little body' and -ism), is a set of
theories that
explain natural transformations...
- In optics, the
corpuscular theory of
light states that
light is made up of
small discrete particles called "corpuscles" (little particles)
which travel...
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Ancient Gr****
philosophy arose in the 6th
century BC.
Philosophy was used to make
sense of the
world using reason. It
dealt with a wide
variety of subjects...
- corn-cracker – the
nickname of a
Kentucky man;
pejorative corpuscular philosophy – the
philosophy which accounts for
physical phenomena by the
position and...
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invoked in
modern logic and
philosophy. It has
attracted the most
controversy and criticism,
especially from
corpuscular philosophy and
quantum mechanics....
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Paradoxes 1666 –
Origin of
Forms and
Qualities according to the
Corpuscular Philosophy. (A
continuation of his work on the
spring of air
demonstrated that...
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aether to have a
certain elasticity,
transmitting vibrations from the
corpuscular packets of
light as they
travel through. This
theory of luminiferous...
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Chemical Revolution, with his
mechanical corpuscular philosophy,
which in turn
relied heavily on the
alchemical corpuscular theory and
experimental method dating...
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philosophical disciplines ranging from
philosophy of
history to
philosophy of science. As a
materialist philosophy,
Marxist dialectics emphasizes the importance...
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Aristotelian physics). René Descartes' (1596–1650) "mechanical"
philosophy of
corpuscularism had much in
common with atomism, and is considered, in some senses...
