Thunder
event · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages
thunder
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Metaphysics
Thunder, cited as an example of a natural event whose causal explanation ('why does it thunder') exemplifies the proper logical form of a 'why' question.
(The fact that A does belong to B must be evident, for if this is not so, the question is pointless.
Vitae philosophorum
Thunder, explained by the rolling of wind in clouds, roaring fire, or the rending and friction of clouds.
Thunder may be due to the rolling of wind in the hollow parts of the clouds, as it is sometimes imprisoned in vessels which we use;
Lightning precedes thunder, when the clouds are constituted as mentioned above and the configuration which produces lightning is expelled at the moment when the wind falls upon the cloud, and the wind being rolled up afterwards produces the roar of thunder;