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[A]s to the corpuscular philosophy, men do so easily understand one another's meaning when they talk of local motion, rest, magnitude, shape, order, situation, and contexture of material substances; and these principles afford such clear accounts of those things that are rightly deduced from them alone that even such Peripatetics or chemists as maintain other principles acquiesce in the explications made by these, when they can be had, and seek no further... Robert Boyle, Of the Excellency and Grounds of the Corpuscular or Mechanical Philosophy |
General Philosophy ResourcesPeter Suber's Guide to Philosophy on the Internet The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy |