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Full Idea
For Newton, mass is central to matter.
Gist of Idea
Mass is central to matter
Source
report of Isaac Newton (Principia Mathematica [1687]) by William D. Hart - The Evolution of Logic 2
Book Ref
Hart,W.D.: 'The Evolution of Logic' [CUP 2010], p.38
A Reaction
On reading this, I realise that this is the concept of matter I have grown up with, one which makes it very hard to grasp what the Greeks were thinking of when they referred to matter [hule].
13470 | Mass is central to matter [Newton, by Hart,WD] |
15978 | I take 'matter' to be a body, excluding its extension in space and its shape [Locke] |
12718 | Secondary matter is active and complete; primary matter is passive and incomplete [Leibniz] |
19416 | Not all of matter is animated, any more than a pond full of living fish is animated [Leibniz] |
19422 | Every particle of matter contains organic bodies [Leibniz] |
19436 | Bare or primary matter is passive; it is clothed or secondary matter which contains action [Leibniz] |
7560 | Leibniz struggled to reconcile bodies with a reality of purely soul-like entities [Jolley on Leibniz] |
6731 | No one can explain how matter affects mind, so matter is redundant in philosophy [Berkeley] |
14301 | We have no good concept of solidity or matter, because accounts of them are all circular [Hume] |
16603 | In the 17th C matter became body, and was then studied by science [Pasnau] |