A Collection of Papers, which Passed Between the Late Learned Mr. Leibnitz, and Dr. Clarke, in the Years 1715 and 1716: Relating to the Principles of Natural Philosophy and Religion. With an Appendix. To which are Added, Letters to Dr. Clarke Concerning Liberty and Necessity; from a Gentleman of the University of Cambridge: with the Doctor's Answers to Them. Also Remarks Upon a Book, Entituled, A Philosophical Enquiry Concerning Human Liberty, Volume 1James Knapton, at the Crown in St. Paul's Church-Yard., 1717 - 46 pagina's |
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Pagina 201 - ... affection; it being impossible, that the same individual accident should be in two subjects, or pass from one subject to another. But the mind not contented with an agreement, looks for an identity, for something that should be truly the same; and conceives it as being extrinsic to the subject: and this is what we here call place and space. But this can only be an ideal thing; containing a certain order, wherein the mind conceives the application of relations.
Pagina 7 - I hold, that when God works miracles, he does not do it in order to supply the wants of nature, but those of grace. Whoever thinks otherwise, must needs have a very mean notion of the wisdom and power of God.
Pagina 71 - If God would cause a body to move free in the aether round about a certain fixed center, without any other creature acting upon it : I say, it could not be done without a miracle ; since it cannot be explained by the nature of bodies.
Pagina 11 - Sir Isaac Newton doth not say, that space is the organ which God makes use of to perceive things by; nor that he has need of any medium at all, whereby to perceive things: but on the contrary, that he, being omnipresent, perceives all things by his immediate presence to them, in all space wherever they are, without the intervention or assistance of any organ or medium whatsoever.
Pagina 197 - ... among themselves; and that another thing, newly come, acquires the same relation to the others, as the former had; we then say, it is come into the place of the former; and this change, we call a motion in that body, wherein is the immediate cause of the change.
Pagina 205 - To conclude. If the space (which the author fancies) void of all bodies, is not altogether empty; what is it then full of? Is it full of extended spirits perhaps, or immaterial substances, capable of extending and contracting themselves; which move therein, and penetrate each other without any inconveniency, as the shadows of two bodies penetrate one another upon the surface of a wall? Methinks I see the revival of the odd imaginations of Dr. Henry More (otherwise a learned and well-meaning man,)...
Pagina 45 - The present frame of the solar system, for instance, according to the present laws of motion, will in time fall into confusion and perhaps, after that, will be amended or put into a new form. But this amendment is only relative with regard to our conceptions. In reality and with regard to God, the present frame, and the consequent disorder, and the following renovation are all equally parts of the design framed in God's original perfect idea.
Pagina 187 - ... bodies. For, it is a strange imagination to make all matter gravitate, and that towards all other matter, as if each body did equally attract every other body according to their masses and distances ; and this by an attraction properly so called, which is not derived from an occult impulse of bodies : whereas the gravity of sensible bodies towards the center of the earth, ought to be produced by the motion of some fluid.
Pagina 61 - ... that of a supposed anticipation, would not at all differ, nor could be discerned from the other which now is. 7. It appears from what I have said that my axiom has not been well understood and that the author denies it though he seems to grant it.
Pagina 127 - ... 9. Void space, is not an attribute without a subject; because, by void space, we never mean space void of every thing, but void of body only. In all void space, God is certainly present, and possibly many other substances which are not matter; being neither tangible, nor objects of any of our senses.