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18:10 Jan 26, 2005 |
Latin to English translations [PRO] Art/Literary - Philosophy | |||||||
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| Selected response from: Kirill Semenov Ukraine Local time: 11:34 | ||||||
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3 +3 | a part as an external thing to another part |
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3 | every part is external to every other one (part) |
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every part is external to every other one (part) Explanation: Also see: http://www.ucd.ie/philosop/documents/Leibniz's Philosop... AND "The extension of body seems to be nothing other than the continuation of matter through the contiguity of its parts [partes extra partes], ie diffusion" (cf. http://www.philosophy.leeds.ac.uk/GMR/hmp/texts/modern/leibn... I hope that helps a bit. ;-) |
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a part as an external thing to another part Explanation: It means that things exists alongside, beyond each other, exterior to each other. No interdependence, just external independent existence. -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 20 mins (2005-01-26 18:31:22 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- In some sense, it\'s the opposite of the idea of internal union of things. -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 42 mins (2005-01-26 18:53:05 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- Grammatically? \"extra\" is \"out, beyond\". Parts beyond parts. -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 56 mins (2005-01-26 19:07:48 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- The idea emphasizes a corpuscular, particle-based, atomistic structure of the universe: it consists of parts, however small, and each part is external to another, even adjancent part. The idea was argued Leibniz, a great philosopher and a mathematician. It may be useful to remind that it was Leibniz who introduced the method of infinitesimals into mathematics as an apparatus to deal with a continuity. These discrete infinitesimals became the main approach to model continuity in mathematics thereafter. |
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