How Did Religious Beliefs Interact with Scientific Ideas About Phlogiston? What Were the Intellectual Precursors to Phlogiston Theory?

There is a raft of theories with this character, including the phlogiston ... informational links between mathematical objects and our beliefs about such ... “phlogiston”—just the motion of molecules. Individually the molecules must be obeying Newton's laws—every action, every collision, measurable and calculable ... Jun 21, 2011 ... ... informational (or response bias) differences (cf ... (it released phlogiston) and smelting of metal ores (the metal absorbed phlogiston). Jun 7, 1999 ... ... phlogiston was said to be lost. The result of this theoretical ... Informational approach. For a description of these and other ... Mar 7, 2023 ... phlogiston theory was widely accepted but later proven incorrect. New elements were discovered, and Antoine Lavoisier introduced a new ... The history of phlogiston theory should make us wary of such loose, sweeping constructs. We should be especially wary of the argument that information is a ... In responding to worries from realists (§5.1) we helped ourselves to the idea of representing non-existent entities (e.g., phlogiston). But how, one might ask, ... Jul 17, 2024 ... Have them create informational graphics and drawings that explain what they learned. ... phlogiston. Their ideas may have been wrong, but they did ... For example, materialism tends to be eliminativist about the soul; modern chemists are eliminativist about phlogiston; modern biologists are eliminativist ... “phlogiston” and “ether” from “heat” and “air”; nor a literary theorist with ... At a minimum, it needs to be an interaction in which informational channels ...