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Apr 10, 2011, 8:41:00 AM4/10/11
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Apr 22, 2011, 2:22:08 PM4/22/11
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On Apr 10, 2:41 pm, backspace <stephan...@gmail.com> wrote:
> http://books.google.co.za/books?id=tflDVdDFM-4C&pg=PA4&lpg=PA4&dq=gor...
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> p107
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> see for unfalsifiability
Gordon Campbell wrote that Lucretius, De Rerum Natura was the target
of YEC before Darwin. In the book I found many tautologies and will
document them later. One copy surfaced during the middle ages and the
result of which was Adolf Hitler. Lucretius ideas inspired the
persecution of the early Xtians and Jews.
> http://books.google.co.za/books?id=tflDVdDFM-4C&pg=PA4&lpg=PA4&dq=gor...
>
> p107
>
> see for unfalsifiability
Gordon Campbell wrote that Lucretius, De Rerum Natura was the target
of YEC before Darwin. In the book I found many tautologies and will
document them later. One copy surfaced during the middle ages and the
result of which was Adolf Hitler. Lucretius ideas inspired the
persecution of the early Xtians and Jews.
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Apr 27, 2011, 7:37:22 AM4/27/11
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http://darwin-online.org.uk/content/frameset?viewtype=text&itemID=A12&keywords=goethe&pageseq=63
By myriad blows (to use a Lucretian phrase) the image and
superscription of the external world are stamped as states of
consciousness upon the organism, the depth of the impression depending
upon the number of the blows. When two or more phenomena occur in the
environment invariably together, they are stamped to the same depth or
to the same relief, and indissolubly connected. And here we come to
the threshold of a great question. Seeing that he could in no way rid
himself of the consciousness of Space and Time, Kant assumed them to
be necessary 'forms of intuition,' the moulds and shapes into which
our intuitions are thrown, belonging to ourselves solely and without
objective existence. With unexpected power and success Mr. Spencer
brings the hereditary experience theory, as he holds it, to bear upon
this question. 'If there exist certain external relations which are
experienced by all organisms at all instants of their waking lives
relations which are absolutely constant and universal there will be
established answering internal relations that are absolutely constant
and universal. Such relations we have in those of Space and Time. As
the substratum of all other relations of the Non-Ego, they must be
responded to by conceptions that are the substrata of all other
relations in the Ego. Being the constant and infinitely repeated
elements of thought, they must become the automatic elements of
thought the elements of thought which it is impossible to get rid of
the "forms of intuition."'
By myriad blows (to use a Lucretian phrase) the image and
superscription of the external world are stamped as states of
consciousness upon the organism, the depth of the impression depending
upon the number of the blows. When two or more phenomena occur in the
environment invariably together, they are stamped to the same depth or
to the same relief, and indissolubly connected. And here we come to
the threshold of a great question. Seeing that he could in no way rid
himself of the consciousness of Space and Time, Kant assumed them to
be necessary 'forms of intuition,' the moulds and shapes into which
our intuitions are thrown, belonging to ourselves solely and without
objective existence. With unexpected power and success Mr. Spencer
brings the hereditary experience theory, as he holds it, to bear upon
this question. 'If there exist certain external relations which are
experienced by all organisms at all instants of their waking lives
relations which are absolutely constant and universal there will be
established answering internal relations that are absolutely constant
and universal. Such relations we have in those of Space and Time. As
the substratum of all other relations of the Non-Ego, they must be
responded to by conceptions that are the substrata of all other
relations in the Ego. Being the constant and infinitely repeated
elements of thought, they must become the automatic elements of
thought the elements of thought which it is impossible to get rid of
the "forms of intuition."'
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May 1, 2011, 7:20:21 AM5/1/11
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On Apr 10, 2:41 pm, backspace <stephan...@gmail.com> wrote:
> http://books.google.co.za/books?id=tflDVdDFM-4C&pg=PA4&lpg=PA4&dq=gor...
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> p107
''...Aside from this difference the two systems are significantly
> http://books.google.co.za/books?id=tflDVdDFM-4C&pg=PA4&lpg=PA4&dq=gor...
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> p107
similar: life is formed randomly in a great burst of mutations in the
beginning of the world, and these mutations are then 'selected' by
extinction, to produce species well adapted to their
environment. As I have argued above(see introduction 837ff.),
Lucretius is not an evolutionist here, since he insists on...''
p.108 to 118 are in the book only ,not onl
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