Re: History and Goals (for TE)
George Murphy (gmurphy@raex.com)
Wed, 24 Jun 1998 07:21:50 -0400
Garry DeWeese wrote:
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> I am reminded of what Thomas Aquinas said about God's omnipresence:
>
> God is present in all things; not indeed as part of their essence, nor as
> an accident; but as an agent is present to that upon which it works. . . .
> Therefore as long as a thing has being, God must be present to it. . . .
> No action of an agent, however powerful it may be, acts at a distance,
> except through a medium. ................................
Tangent to this thread - interesting to compare this last
sentence of St. T with the nervousness of Newton's contemporaries about
his law of gravitation which seemed to require action at a distance &
Einstein's dislike of "spooky action at a distance", aka quantum
nonlocality, apropos the EPR argument.
George
George L. Murphy
gmurphy@imperium.net
http://www.imperium.net/~gmurphy