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Newton on Matter and Activity

By Ernan McMullin

Book information

Publisher
University of Notre Dame Press
Year
1994
ISBN
0268013438, 9780268013431
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
4 MB (4438053 bytes)
Pages
170\169
Time added
2023-12-31 19:43:10

Description

"Newton on Matter and Activity shows persuasively that while the Principia remains within the first two stages of inquiry (mathematical and physical) into nature, Newton spent the next forty years of his life making a philosophical analysis of matter, force, and transmission of force. Close attention is paid to methodological issues, especially Newton's move beyond inductivism and toward a reproductive theoretical schema of interpretation required to treat of attraction, hardness, and impenetrability." ―Cross Currents

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