Lindsey
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Lindsey
she can rock a toolbelt if you know what I mean.
Descartes thought that
what it means for something
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to physically exist is
for it to take up space. Philosophy students may
remember the term 'Res Extensa.'
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That's Latin for 'extended stuff.' It's Descartes' term for physical matter.
9:16
And so because existence
means taking up space, that means the universe must be full.
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There is no empty space... See more
what it means for something
9:02
to physically exist is
for it to take up space. Philosophy students may
remember the term 'Res Extensa.'
9:10
That's Latin for 'extended stuff.' It's Descartes' term for physical matter.
9:16
And so because existence
means taking up space, that means the universe must be full.
9:25
There is no empty space... See more
The Problem with Video Essays
Video Essays and
Philosophy Tube. Descartes.
"While England endeavors to cure the potato-rot, will not any endeavor to cure the brain-rot, which prevails so much more widely and fatally?"
Writer Thoreau warned of brain rot in 1854. Now it's the Oxford Word of 2024
Henry David Thoreau
Fliiiiiirting
Flirting isn’t limited to romance. Flirting is an attitude that only playful and happy people can have and enjoy. It’s the virtue of being uncommitted—to people, to philosophies, to bets. Flirting turns uncertainty, something we usually fear, into pleasure.
It’s being able to take yourself less seriously. It’s being able to react to... See more
Flirting isn’t limited to romance. Flirting is an attitude that only playful and happy people can have and enjoy. It’s the virtue of being uncommitted—to people, to philosophies, to bets. Flirting turns uncertainty, something we usually fear, into pleasure.
It’s being able to take yourself less seriously. It’s being able to react to... See more
Sherry Ning • Diary of A Lover Girl
Philosophy and quotes
Galileo and Newton appeared to have removed God from these everyday workings of the world, explaining it instead as the clockwork of a vast machine of impersonal force and mass, but even they still needed the Clockmaker to wind it up in the beginning, to imbue the universe with the potential energy that has run it ever since.
Charles Eisenstein • Sacred Economics: Money, Gift, and Society in the Age of Transition
He maintained that material objects only exist through being perceived. To the objection that, in that case, a tree, for instance, would cease to exist if no one was looking at it, he replied that God always perceives everything; if there were no God, what we take to be material objects would have a jerky life, suddenly leaping into being when we
... See moreBertrand Russell • History of Western Philosophy
the object of perception cannot be separated from the mind that perceives it.
Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche • In Love with the World: A Monk's Journey Through the Bardos of Living and Dying
Berkeley summed up this strange view in Latin as ‘Esse est percipi’ – to be (or exist) is to be perceived. So the fridge light can't be on, and the tree can't make a noise when there is no mind there to experience them. That might seem the obvious conclusion to draw from Berkeley's immaterialism. But Berkeley didn't think that objects were
... See moreNigel Warburton • A Little History of Philosophy (Little Histories)
Where does gravity come from? Newton didn't know. So he said, God does it.