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Question Re Thermodynamics And Deductive Reasoning v. Empiricism 12
- Cassius
October 3, 2019 at 8:13 AM
- Cassius
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"Space Weather" - Solar Flares 12
- Kalosyni
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Was Atlantis An Allegorical Flight of Fancy Like Plato's Cave And His Ideal Forms? 12
- Don
January 28, 2025 at 8:22 AM
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New Article Attacking Epicurean Physics: "Science Versus the Oldest Anti-Intelligent Design Argument " 14
- Cassius
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- Cassius
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What Determines That Which Is Possible And That Which is Impossible? 16
- Cassius
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Movement, Direction, and Speed of Atoms - Do Atoms Fall "Down?" Is the "Swerve" Required To Bring Them Together Into Bodies? 17
- Don
December 18, 2020 at 10:42 AM
- Don
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A Recap of Principles of Epicurean Physics 19
- Cassius
October 11, 2016 at 1:36 PM
- Cassius
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ΤΟ ΠΑΝ: The Sum of All Things 19
- Don
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- Don
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Did Epicurus really oversell the power of science to diminish anxiety? 19
- waterholic
February 14, 2023 at 1:52 AM
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Lucretius - Not Accidents, Not Incidents, But "Contextidents" 23
- Cassius
December 14, 2017 at 8:44 AM
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Responding To A Video Entitled: "Quantum Physics Debunks Materialism" - Collecting Arguments Against Anti-Epicurean Uses of Quantum Physics Theories 25
- Cassius
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Isonomia 27
- Mathitis Kipouros
August 17, 2021 at 9:00 AM
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Time in Epicurus, Lucretius, and Aristotle 27
- Don
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- Don
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Simulacra, gods and the dead 38
- timrobbe
November 14, 2020 at 3:49 AM
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Infinity and the Expanding Universe 39
- Godfrey
July 23, 2020 at 4:50 PM
- Godfrey
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Scottish Epicurean Wisdom?
- Don
March 10, 2025 at 5:52 PM - General Discussion
- Don
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New Religious Landscape Study from Pew Research 25
- Don
February 26, 2025 at 10:40 PM - General Discussion
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So You Want To Learn Ancient Greek Or Latin? 78
- burninglights
November 17, 2023 at 8:20 PM - General Discussion
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Pleasure as a guide 3
- EyalA
March 3, 2025 at 2:02 PM - General Discussion
- EyalA
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Téōs Around an Idea 4
- Eikadistes
March 2, 2025 at 1:36 PM - General Discussion
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