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I 116
Essence/Tradition/Science/Kuhn: consequence of Newton's work: the statement that a stone falls because its "essence" drives it to the center of the universe (Aristotle) had now become a purely tautological play on words, which it had not been before! >Laws of nature, >Tautology.
Henceforth, the whole stream of sensory phenomena, including color, taste, and even weight, had to be explained in terms of the size, shape, position, and motions of the elementary particles of basic matter. To attribute other properties to the elementary atoms was from now on something occult and out of question for science.
During this period Moliere's mockery of the doctor who believed in the "soporific power" (vis dormitiva). After that, scientists preferred to attribute the calming effect to the round shape of the opium elementary particles.
>Mysticism.

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