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Ideas of Peter Alexander, by Text
[British, 1917 - 2006, Professor at Bristol University.]
1985
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Ideas, Qualities and Corpuscles
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01.1
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p.16
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15951
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Alchemists tried to separate out essences, which influenced later chemistry
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02.3
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p.57
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15959
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If the substantial form of brass implies its stability, how can it melt and remain brass?
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03.3
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p.68
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15963
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Science has been partly motivated by the belief that the universe is run by God's laws
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5.02
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p.123
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15975
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Can the qualities of a body be split into two groups, where the smaller explains the larger?
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54
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p.54
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15956
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The peripatetics treated forms and real qualities as independent of matter, and non-material
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6
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p.136
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15981
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Absolute space either provides locations, or exists but lacks 'marks' for locations
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