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Galileo's middle finger
Galileo's middle finger, the preserved middle finger of Galileo Galilei's right hand, removed by Anton Francesco Gori in 1737 and displayed at the Museo Galileo in Florence (inv. 2432), with related relics of thumb, index finger, tooth, and vertebra.
Innatism
Innatism, or nativism, is the philosophical doctrine that some ideas, concepts, or knowledge are innate, present from birth, opposed to empiricist blank-slate views from Plato and Descartes to Locke's attack and Chomsky's linguistic revival.
Mechanism (philosophy)
Mechanism (philosophy): also the mechanical philosophy, mechanicism. Doctrine that nature is explained by inert matter and particle impact, not final causes or vital forces; central to Descartes, Hobbes, Boyle, the vitalism dispute, and the new mechanism in philosophy of science.
Modern philosophy
Modern philosophy (西方近代哲学, early modern philosophy): Western philosophy c. 1500–1800, from Descartes's epistemological turn through rationalism, empiricism, and Kant's synthesis, now revised by historiographic critique.
Principle of sufficient reason
Principle of sufficient reason (PSR), coined by Leibniz as principe de raison suffisante, holds every fact has a reason, cause, or ground; central to cosmological arguments, contested via Humean, quantum, and skepticism objections.