13548 | The ocean changes in volume in proportion to the attraction of the moon [Seneca] |
17259 | 'Force' is the quantity of movement imposed on something [Hobbes] |
20966 | Newton introduced forces other than by contact [Newton, by Papineau] |
20967 | Newton's laws cover the effects of forces, but not their causes [Newton, by Papineau] |
16708 | Newton's forces were accused of being the scholastics' real qualities [Pasnau on Newton] |
17547 | Newton's idea of force acting over a long distance was very strange [Heisenberg on Newton] |
13153 | I am studying the quantities and mathematics of forces, not their species or qualities [Newton] |
12724 | The aim is to discover forces from motions, and use forces to demonstrate other phenomena [Newton] |
15986 | Boyle and Locke suspect forces of being occult [Locke, by Alexander,P] |
16685 | An insurmountable force in a body keeps our hands apart when we handle it [Locke] |
16709 | Some people return to scholastic mysterious qualities, disguising them as 'forces' [Leibniz] |
13192 | Power is passive force, which is mass, and active force, which is entelechy or form [Leibniz] |
13196 | All qualities of bodies reduce to forces [Leibniz] |
12758 | It is plausible to think substances contain the same immanent force seen in our free will [Leibniz] |
13167 | We need the metaphysical notion of force to explain mechanics, and not just extended mass [Leibniz] |
12924 | Motion alone is relative, but force is real, and establishes its subject [Leibniz] |
13096 | The force behind motion is like a soul, with its own laws of continual change [Leibniz] |
13097 | Force in substance makes state follow state, and ensures the very existence of substance [Leibniz] |
12719 | Clearly, force is that from which action follows, when unimpeded [Leibniz] |
15307 | Leibniz uses 'force' to mean both activity and potential [Leibniz] |
14171 | Force is supposed to cause acceleration, but acceleration is a mathematical fiction [Russell] |
12671 | I deny forces as entities that intervene in causation, but are not themselves causal [Ellis] |
15313 | By 'force' I mean the sources of all actions - sometimes called 'powers' by their outcomes [Breheny] |
21202 | The strong force has a considerably greater range than the weak force [Martin,BR] |
21181 | Relativity and Quantum theory give very different accounts of forces [Hesketh] |