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    2. References to Epicurus' Attitude Toward The "Place of the Sciences And Liberal Arts" 63

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      • July 28, 2020 at 10:18 AM
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    2. 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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    4. Eikadistes

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    2. The Logical Possibilities As To What Can Be Eternal (Applicable to Gods As Well)

      • Cassius
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    2. Movement, Direction, and Speed of Atoms - Do Atoms Fall "Down?" Is the "Swerve" Required To Bring Them Together Into Bodies? 17

      • Don
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      December 12, 2024 at 3:00 PM

    2. Intermundia Anyone? Article: "Does Life Really Need Planets? Maybe Not!"

      • Cassius
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    2. New Article Attacking Epicurean Physics: "Science Versus the Oldest Anti-Intelligent Design Argument " 14

      • Cassius
      • November 3, 2024 at 6:13 PM
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    2. Astronomy Software - For Moon Phases and General Night-Sky Navigation 4

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      • January 24, 2023 at 2:15 PM
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    2. Isonomia 27

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      • August 31, 2024 at 12:02 PM
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    4. Bryan

      August 31, 2024 at 12:02 PM

    2. History of the Universe podcast

      • Don
      • June 19, 2024 at 7:13 AM
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    2. Epicurus On Causation 2

      • Cassius
      • May 26, 2024 at 4:54 PM
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    4. Pacatus

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    2. What Determines That Which Is Possible And That Which is Impossible? 16

      • Cassius
      • May 15, 2024 at 2:26 AM
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      May 15, 2024 at 2:26 AM

    2. "Space Weather" - Solar Flares 12

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      • May 11, 2024 at 7:04 AM
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    4. Cassius

      May 11, 2024 at 7:04 AM

    2. Explaining Epicurean Physics In One Paragraph (in rebuttal of ideas such as the "multiverse")

      • Kalosyni
      • September 22, 2023 at 4:01 PM
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      • September 22, 2023 at 4:01 PM
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    2. Time in Epicurus, Lucretius, and Aristotle 27

      • Don
      • September 4, 2023 at 8:55 AM
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      September 6, 2023 at 2:44 PM

    2. More correct to say "Natural Science" rather than "Physics"? 9

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      • July 13, 2023 at 2:42 PM
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    2. Epicurus and Spacetime 2

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      • March 26, 2023 at 6:16 AM
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    4. Martin

      March 26, 2023 at 6:16 AM

    2. Did Epicurus really oversell the power of science to diminish anxiety? 19

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      • February 14, 2023 at 1:52 AM
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      February 16, 2023 at 2:11 PM

    2. *Basic* Article on History of Atomism - 2023 2

      • Cassius
      • January 25, 2023 at 9:23 AM
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      • January 25, 2023 at 9:45 AM
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      January 25, 2023 at 9:45 AM

    2. Free Will, Determinism or. Compatibilism? 2

      • Sid
      • October 10, 2022 at 4:29 AM
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      October 10, 2022 at 8:13 AM

    2. Graphic By Elli On Epicurus vs Plato On Creation of the Universe 6

      • Cassius
      • August 2, 2022 at 6:02 PM
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    2. Sedley Article: Epicurus And The Mathematicians of Cyzicus -1976 ( On The Issue of Epicurus vs Geometry) 1

      • Cassius
      • June 15, 2022 at 10:25 AM
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    2. A Recap of Principles of Epicurean Physics 19

      • Cassius
      • October 11, 2016 at 1:36 PM
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    2. ΤΟ ΠΑΝ: The Sum of All Things 19

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      • March 9, 2020 at 11:47 PM
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    2. Best Videos Discussing The Limits of Speculation In Physics

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      • July 29, 2021 at 8:58 AM
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    2. Navigation of the Physics Forum

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    2. ΠPOΦHTAΣ ATOMΩN – "Atom-Prophets" 2

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    2. Simulacra, gods and the dead 38

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    2. Responding To A Video Entitled: "Quantum Physics Debunks Materialism" - Collecting Arguments Against Anti-Epicurean Uses of Quantum Physics Theories 25

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    2. How Supporters of Epicurus Should Approach The Effect of Modern Scientific Discoveries In Their Promotion of Epicurean Philosophy 5

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    2. Infinity and the Expanding Universe 39

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    2. What fears does modern science remove, as Epicurean physics did in antiquity? 31

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    2. Daily life of ancient Epicureans / 21st Century Epicureans 38

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