Element - Philosophy

Philosophy

  • Alchemical elements, the components of the universe, expressed in their Aristotelian forms as fire, earth, air, wood, and water
  • Bhūta are five elements in Hinduism
  • The Classical elements, the ancient belief about the fundamental types of matter (usually four in number)
  • Five elements (Japanese philosophy), the basis of the universe according to Japanese philosophy
  • Mahābhūta, Buddhist great elements
  • Tattva, the basis of the universe according to Hindu Samkhya philosophy
  • Wu Xing, sometimes translated as five elements, the basis of the universe according to Chinese Taoism

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    “The very hope of experimental philosophy, its expectation of constructing the sciences into a true philosophy of nature, is based on induction, or, if you please, the a priori presumption, that physical causation is universal; that the constitution of nature is written in its actual manifestations, and needs only to be deciphered by experimental and inductive research; that it is not a latent invisible writing, to be brought out by the magic of mental anticipation or metaphysical mediation.”
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