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  • Pacatus April 22, 2026 at 1:14 PM

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    This makes sense also for those of us who, as individuals, do explore different lines of thought re Epicurean philosophy, and even (as Martin notes) other schools of philosophy – where that seems helpful to us. For example, I often find stuff on…

  • Pacatus April 22, 2026 at 12:55 PM

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    This is one of the basic differences between Hiram's approach and that which I set out to accomplish here in forming EpicureanFriends. Our focus is on understanding the philosophy as it was originally taught, which we are all including me very far…

  • Pacatus April 22, 2026 at 12:53 PM

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    Excellent question, Matteng !

    Regarding the fourth criterion of the canon, I will simply point the way to Prof. David Glidden's Epicurean Prolepsis. It won't furnish any answers, but in it he does attempt to explain why the question itself is extremely…

  • Pacatus April 22, 2026 at 12:49 PM

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    If Plato writes something like "finite divisibility of matter is logically impossible", we reject it because logic does not tell anything about reality, and logic is not in Epicurus' canon of truth.
    The statement "infinite divisibility of matter is…

  • Martin April 22, 2026 at 11:56 AM

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    I'm more familiar with measurements of the earth from my days in Land Surveying, and the classic experiments that I can recall are these;

    • The Eratosthenes experiment; a fairly accurate measurement of the circumference of the earth.
    • The Mason-Dixon Survey,
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  • Eikadistes April 22, 2026 at 8:49 AM

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    For questions 2 and 3: Once you have established the law of gravity and measured the gravitational constant with a laboratory scale setup, you can calculate the product M/r^3 (M = mass of the sun, r = radius of the circle for an approximately circular…

  • Kalosyni April 22, 2026 at 7:30 AM

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    For questions 2 and 3: Once you have established the law of gravity and measured the gravitational constant with a laboratory scale setup, you can calculate the product M/r^3 (M = mass of the sun, r = radius of the circle for an approximately circular…

  • Cassius April 22, 2026 at 6:35 AM

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    This appears to be a different link for the same book discussed previously. Thanks to Kalosyni for finding it:

    https://muse.jhu.edu/book/125365

  • Cassius April 22, 2026 at 6:27 AM

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    For questions 2 and 3: Once you have established the law of gravity and measured the gravitational constant with a laboratory scale setup, you can calculate the product M/r^3 (M = mass of the sun, r = radius of the circle for an approximately circular…

  • Martin April 22, 2026 at 2:57 AM

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    For questions 2 and 3: Once you have established the law of gravity and measured the gravitational constant with a laboratory scale setup, you can calculate the product M/r^3 (M = mass of the sun, r = radius of the circle for an approximately circular…

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