Sees all change as having...
Mechanism sees all change as having at its basis permanent and stable things with definite, fixed properties.
Thus for the mechanists the world consists of indivisible, indestructible material particles, which in their interaction manifest such properties as position, mass, velocity.
[Materialism and the Dialectical Method - Maurice Cornforth]
I don't understand "sees all change as having at its basis permanent and stable things". Could you explain this to me?
I understand it like this: Although everything changes, Mechanism finds the unchangeable things. Is it correct?
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XVI I understand it like this: Although everything changes, Mechanism finds the unchangeable things. Is it correct? I can't quite get to your interpretation, but I don't think it is right.
- XVI I understand it like this: Although everything changes, Mechanism finds the unchangeable things.
- Is it correct?
- I can't quite get to your interpretation, but I don't think it is right.
- The writer is using unremarkable but rather formal grammar.
- He means that the way he understands change, its foundation consists of (has) permanent and stable things.
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XVII understand it like this: Although everything changes, Mechanism finds the unchangeable things. Is it correct?
I can't quite get to your interpretation, but I don't think it is right. The writer is using unremarkable but rather formal grammar. He means that the way he understands change, its foundation consists of (has) permanent and stable things. Chan
0XVII don't understand "sees all change as having at its basis permanent and stable things". Could you explain this to me?
~ sees all change as a phenomenon that is based on permanent and stable things
XVIAlthough everything changes, Mechanism finds the unchangeable things. Is it correct?
No. I think the author is
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