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Ideas for Melvin Fitting, Gottfried Leibniz and Todd May
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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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27. Natural Reality / B. Modern Physics / 1. Relativity / a. Special relativity
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Motion is not absolute, but consists in relation [Leibniz]
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27. Natural Reality / C. Space / 2. Space
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Space is the order of coexisting possibles [Leibniz]
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27. Natural Reality / C. Space / 4. Substantival Space
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The idea that the universe could be moved forward with no other change is just a fantasy [Leibniz]
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27. Natural Reality / C. Space / 5. Relational Space
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Space is an order among actual and possible things [Leibniz]
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27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 1. Nature of Time / b. Relative time
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Time is the order of inconsistent possibilities [Leibniz]
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Space and time are purely relative [Leibniz]
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Space and time are the order of all possibilities, and don't just relate to what is actual [Leibniz]
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27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 1. Nature of Time / e. Eventless time
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If there were duration without change, we could never establish its length [Leibniz]
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27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 1. Nature of Time / i. Denying time
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Time doesn't exist, since its parts don't coexist [Leibniz]
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No time exists except instants, and instants are not even a part of time, so time does not exist [Leibniz]
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27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 2. Passage of Time / a. Experience of time
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If everything in the universe happened a year earlier, there would be no discernible difference [Leibniz]
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27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 2. Passage of Time / g. Time's arrow
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When one element contains the grounds of the other, the first one is prior in time [Leibniz]
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27. Natural Reality / G. Biology / 2. Life
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To regard animals as mere machines may be possible, but seems improbable [Leibniz]
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27. Natural Reality / G. Biology / 3. Evolution
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Men are related to animals, which are related to plants, then to fossils, and then to the apparently inert [Leibniz]
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