Lexicon of Arguments

 Philosophical and Scientific Issues in Dispute
 
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I 219f
Newton: the "world" is featureless
>World, >World/Thinking.
I 220
Subject/Descartes: material things are simply extended, empty geometry.
>Objects, >Matter, >Geometry.
Newton: They act in colors and sounds and others, but they are not characterized or imbued with this! Therefore, there are only two substances, the thinking and the extensive.
>res extensa, >res cogitans.
I 220
Features/Descartes: A thing can not have properties which it wins or loses when these properties are meant to be its own properties. (E.g. beeswax). Instead, we should talk about the changing of properties.
>Change, >Process, >R. Descartes.

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