Classical Four elements typically refer to earth, water, air, fire, and aether which were proposed to explain the nature and complexity of all matter in terms of simpler substances.
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Classical Four elements typically refer to earth, water, air, fire, and aether which were proposed to explain the nature and complexity of all matter in terms of simpler substances.
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Some interpretations included atomism, but other interpretations considered the Four elements to be divisible into infinitely small pieces without changing their nature.
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Four elements preferred a number of other terms indicating eternal movement, thus emphasising the evidence for his discovery of a new element.
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Four elements maintained that each of the elements has three properties.
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Five Four elements are associated with the five senses, and act as the gross medium for the experience of sensations.
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The basest element, earth, created using all the other Four elements, can be perceived by all five senses?—? hearing, touch, sight, taste, and smell.
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In early Buddhism, the four elements are a basis for understanding suffering and for liberating oneself from suffering.
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The earliest Buddhist texts explain that the four primary material elements are solidity, fluidity, temperature, and mobility, characterized as earth, water, fire, and air, respectively.
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Buddha's teaching regarding the four elements is to be understood as the base of all observation of real sensations rather than as a philosophy.
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Four elements promulgated a categorization of mind and matter as composed of eight types of "kalapas" of which the four elements are primary and a secondary group of four are color, smell, taste, and nutriment which are derivative from the four primaries.
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Four elements reasoned that Aristotle's four element theory appeared in bodies as three principles.
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