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Corpuscularian

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Cor`pus`cu`la´ri`an    (~l?´r?-an)
a.1.Corpuscular.
n.1.An adherent of the corpuscular philosophy.
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Knoeff documents a shift in Boerhaave's thinking from his early Institutiones medicae (1708), which was influenced by Robert Boyle's corpuscularian chemistry and the mechanics of inertia and attraction in Newton's Principia, to emphasize more the chemical attractions and repulsions that are found in Newton's Opticks, and eventually to abandon mechanical philosophy for a more Paracelsian metaphysics of seminal agencies that act directly on bodies from within them.
Herman Boerhaave (1668-1738): Calvinist Chemist and Physician by Shackelford, Jole / Renaissance Quarterly
If some phenomenon x was best explained in corpuscularian categories, it would be ad hoc and question-begging for advocates of R simply to adjust their entities to take on particle properties in the case of x.
Intelligent design psychology and evolutionary psychology: A ... by Moreland, J. P. / Journal of Psychology and Theology
 
 
 
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