more from this thinker | more from this text
Full Idea
Leibniz eventually rejected extension altogether as part of the essence of body, and replaced it with resistance.
Gist of Idea
Leibniz eventually said resistance, rather than extension, was the essence of body
Source
report of Gottfried Leibniz (works [1690]) by Robert Pasnau - Metaphysical Themes 1274-1671 15.5
Book Ref
Pasnau,Robert: 'Metaphysical Themes 1274-1671' [OUP 2011], p.317
A Reaction
This makes body consist of active force, rather than mere geometry. Much better.
Related Idea
Idea 16684 Impenetrability only belongs to the essence of extension [Descartes]
| 16687 | Bodies are three-dimensional substances [Aquinas] |
| 16684 | Impenetrability only belongs to the essence of extension [Descartes] |
| 16601 | Matter is not hard, heavy or coloured, but merely extended in space [Descartes] |
| 6518 | Matter can't just be Descartes's geometry, because a filler of the spaces is needed [Robinson,H on Descartes] |
| 13185 | Even if extension is impenetrable, this still offers no explanation for motion and its laws [Leibniz] |
| 16683 | Leibniz eventually said resistance, rather than extension, was the essence of body [Leibniz, by Pasnau] |
| 5615 | Extension and impenetrability together make the concept of matter [Kant] |
| 6519 | Locke's solidity is not matter, because that is impenetrability and hardness combined [Robinson,H] |