Matter Matters: Metaphysics and Methodology in the Early Modern Period
Oxford University Press (2010)
| Abstract | Preliminaries : the context of modern matter. The visible and the intelligible ; Plato's early and late methods ; Matter and division -- Analysis. Analysis and clarity and distinctness ; A general theory of clarity and distinctness ; The general theory continued ; Enumeration, quantity, and measurement -- Synthesis. Synthesis and system building ; Synthesis and the principle of addition ; Metaphysics, mathematics, and metaphor ; Material structure and calculating machines ; How analysis and synthesis are related -- Sensible and intelligible matter. Is matter real? ; Empirical ideality, reality, and matter ; Empirical reality and intelligible matter ; Transcendental matter -- Tying up the loose ends : closing remarks. | |||||||||
| Keywords | Matter Metaphysics History Metafysica Methodologie | |||||||||
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| Call number | BD331.S65 2010 | |||||||||
| ISBN(s) | 9780199583652 019958365X | |||||||||
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