Part Four

The Elements in Aquinas and the Elements Today

1. How Quarks Remain in Protons

245

2. A Quark, Like Any Element, Is an Agent Cause of a Special Sort,

250

Besides Being a Material Cause of a Special Sort

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3. Ingredients in the Definitions of Quarks and leptons

252

4. Is There Such a Thing As a Mixing? Are Protons Mixings of Quarks?

269

5. Particle Physics and Prime Matter

284

6. Eddington’s Two Tables

288

7. Searle On MicroProperties and MacroProperties

294

8. Nahmanides’ ThirteenthCentury Theological Big Bang

297

9. Schroeder On Nahmanides’ Account of the Beginning and Expansion of

301

the Universe

10. What Aquinas Might Have Said About Nahmanides’ Account

306

Index of Names

317

Index of Subjects

319

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