Inertial effects are felt when there is a change in constant straight motion- acceleration, rotation, changing direction etc.
This inertial effect that Newton showed was a direct attack on Descartes position in which he stated that objects are at true rest when they rest relative to their surroundings, but it also attacks the relationist, for the [...]
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Inertial Effects
Posted in Space, tagged Absolute Space, Berkeley, Inertial Effects, Leibniz, Mach, Newton on May 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Berkeley and Mach
Posted in Space, tagged Absolute Space, Berkeley, Inertial Effects, Mach on May 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Berkeley and Mach were relationists who attempted to take up and finish Leibniz’s arguments, especially when it came to inertial effects.
Both object to absolute space on the grounds put forward by Leibniz- namely PSR and PII. Absolutist talk is incomprehensible, just like ‘nelectricity’.
Berkeley says we cannot imagine a moving object without its moving relative to [...]
Principle of the Identity of Indiscernibles
Posted in Space, tagged clarke, Identity of Indiscernibles, Leibniz, Newton, PII on May 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
‘To suppose two things indiscernible is to suppose the same thing under two names’. If the two universes cannot be told apart, according to PII, they are one and the same. Introducing Absolute space makes them different, this violating the principle.
Clarke says that the PII does not hold, for his ship example shows that there [...]
Principle of Sufficient Reason and Absolute Space
Posted in Space, tagged Absolute Space, clarke, Leibniz, Newton, PSR, Sufficient Reason on May 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Newton’s claim of the existence of Absolute space was attacked by the relationist Leibniz in a correspondence with the absolutist Clarke. Leibniz appealed to the maxim that nothing happens to be one way without a reason for it being such, and said that through looking at absolute space from this angle, it would be shown [...]
Divine Omnipotence
Posted in Religion, tagged god, omnipotent, power, Religion, sin on May 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
THOMAS MORRIS; A MODERN DISCUSSION OF DIVINE OMNIPOTENCE
In Christianity, it is said that ‘with God all things are possible’, but what does this mean?
What is the magnitude of God’s power?
1. God can do everything-Entails god can create spherical cubes. When you have the expression of a logical impossibility, you end up with nothing that can [...]
