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Ideas for B Hale / C Wright, Blasius of Parma and Gottfried Leibniz
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27. Natural Reality / A. Classical Physics / 1. Mechanics / a. Explaining movement
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Bodies are recreated in motion, and don't exist in intervening instants [Leibniz]
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All that is real in motion is the force or power which produces change [Leibniz]
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Maybe motion is definable as 'change of place' [Leibniz]
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27. Natural Reality / A. Classical Physics / 1. Mechanics / c. Forces
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Motion alone is relative, but force is real, and establishes its subject [Leibniz]
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Leibniz uses 'force' to mean both activity and potential [Leibniz]
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Clearly, force is that from which action follows, when unimpeded [Leibniz]
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All qualities of bodies reduce to forces [Leibniz]
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We need the metaphysical notion of force to explain mechanics, and not just extended mass [Leibniz]
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It is plausible to think substances contain the same immanent force seen in our free will [Leibniz]
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Power is passive force, which is mass, and active force, which is entelechy or form [Leibniz]
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The force behind motion is like a soul, with its own laws of continual change [Leibniz]
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Force in substance makes state follow state, and ensures the very existence of substance [Leibniz]
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Some people return to scholastic mysterious qualities, disguising them as 'forces' [Leibniz]
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27. Natural Reality / A. Classical Physics / 2. Thermodynamics / c. Conservation of energy
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Leibniz upheld conservations of momentum and energy [Leibniz, by Papineau]
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