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    Isaac Newton

    Isaac Newton

    modernNatural Philosophy / Mechanical Philosophy

    1643 – 1727

    Sir Isaac Newton was an English mathematician, physicist, and natural philosopher whose work laid the foundations of classical mechanics, optics, and calculus. His Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica (1687) formulated the laws of motion and universal gravitation, profoundly shaping both science and natural philosophy for centuries.

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    Notable Achievements

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    Formulated the three laws of motion and the law of universal gravitation in the Principia

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    Co-developed infinitesimal calculus independently of Leibniz

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    Conducted foundational experiments on the composition of white light and optics

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    Developed a corpuscular theory of light and published Opticks (1704)

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    Served as Warden and Master of the Royal Mint, reforming English coinage

    Positions & Arguments

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    Skepticism

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    Reichenbach was not able to recognize the Weyl method as other than an equivalent account of empirical determination of the metric

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    Demonstrative reasoning cannot bridge the gap between past observations and conclusions about future regularities in nature

    Truth & Knowledge

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    Reichenbach was not able to recognize the Weyl method as other than an equivalent account of empirical determination of the metric

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    Nishida's careful phrasing in 1945 was motivated by political self-protection

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    Demonstrative reasoning cannot bridge the gap between past observations and conclusions about future regularities in nature

    Moral Responsibility

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    We cannot theoretically know that we are free.

    Free Will & Foreknowledge

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    We cannot theoretically know that we are free.

    Modality & Possibility

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    Time travel is implausible and unlikely to exist in our world.

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    Allison's premise (6) is too weak to be a plausible reconstruction of Kant's non-spatiality thesis

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    Mensuration in relativity need not depend on clocks and rigid bodies.

    Causation

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    Time travel is implausible and unlikely to exist in our world.

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    Mensuration in relativity need not depend on clocks and rigid bodies.

    Philosophy of Language

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    Any theory that explains 'good' as an optative in unasserted contexts would render obviously valid arguments invalid by treating them as equivocal

    Perception

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    Allison's premise (6) is too weak to be a plausible reconstruction of Kant's non-spatiality thesis

    Divine Attributes

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    The objection that a time t is not simultaneously future and past — but rather was future at some past moment and will be past at some future moment — fails to resolve the contradiction in the A series

    At a Glance

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    Natural Philosophy / Mechanical Philosophy

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    Truth & Knowledge3
    Modality & Possibility3
    Causation2
    Skepticism2
    Free Will & Foreknowledge1
    Perception1
    Philosophy of Language1
    Moral Responsibility1

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