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2. Episode Fifty-Two - More on Light, Vision, and Reflections 1
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2. Episode Fifty-One - The Workings of Images 17
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2. Episode Fifty - Opening of Book Four - Beginning the DIscussion of Images 2
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2. Episode Forty-Nine - The End of Book Three 4
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2. Episode Forty-Eight - Nature Speaks To Us About Death 1
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2. Episode Forty-Seven - Death is Nothing To Us 2
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2. Episode Forty-Six - Conclusion of the Argument That the Mind and Soul Cannot Survive Death 1
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2. Episode Forty-Five - Further Arguments For the Mortality of the Soul 1
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2. Episode Forty-Four - The Mind Cannot Continue to Exist Separately From The Body After Death 1
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2. Episode Forty-Three - The Mind is Born, Grows Old, and Dies With the Body 1
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2. Episode Forty-Two - The Mind works through the senses; it is a relatively small part of the body; the Mind has more power than the "spirit," but both mind and spirit are mortal 1
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2. Episode Forty-One - The Nature of the Mind and Spirit Is Complex; Sense is Not a Property of The Elements That Make Them, But An Event of Their Combination And Motions 2
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2. Episode Forty - The Mind and Spirit Are Bodily, Composed of Very Fine Atoms 7
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2. Episode Thirty-Nine - The Mind And Spirit Are Not Supernatural But Parts of A Man Just Like The Head and Foot 11
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2. Episode Two - The Achievement of Epicurus 28
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2. Episode Thirty-Seven: End of Book Two - The Earth Too Was Born, and It Will One Day Die 1
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2. Episode Thirty-Six - No Single Thing of A Kind: Earth Not The Only Home of Life 1
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2. Episode Thirty-Five - More Reasons Why The Atoms Cannot Possess The Faculty of Sense 2
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2. Episode Thirty-Four - The Atoms Do Not Possess A Faculty of Sensation 18
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2. Episode Thirty-Three - More on The Implications of the Colorless Atoms 21
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2. Episode Thirty-Two: The Atoms Are Colorless, But the Implications Are Not 17
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2. Episode Thirty - Only A Limited Number of Combinations of Atoms Is Possible 21
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2. Episode Thirty-One - Continuation of Episode Thirty / Polyaenus 9
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2. Episode Twenty-Nine - The Earth As Allegorical Mother of All 8
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2. Episode 31 - Continuation of Episode 30, And the Polyaenus Example
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2. Episode Twenty-Eight - The Number of Shapes of Atoms Is Not Infinite, But Innumerable 5
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2. Episode Twenty-Seven: There Is A Limit To The Size of Atoms 3
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2. Episode Twenty-Five - The Swerve Part II - As the Basis of Human Agency 1
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2. Episode Twenty-Four: The Swerve Part One: As A Producing Force of Nature 2
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2. Episode Twenty-Three - The Motion Of The Atoms Continues Without Resting Place, and At Great Speed 1
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