Abstract

MOLINA BETANCURT, Sebastián. Methodological aspects of the demonstration of the force in newton's principia. Prax. filos. [online]. 2014, n.39, pp.67-92. ISSN 0120-4688.

Before the continental mechanical philosophy's critics, which characterized the gravitational force as an "occult quality" Newton wrote at the "General Scholium" a short answer in which he said that force is real and it was enough the explication given in the Principia to hold like that. About that two interpretations have pretended to explain what are the methodological and mathematical aspects of Newton's answer. In this article it's shown that the most recent reading of this problem allows us to understand some of the limitations of the classical interpretation, when it emphasizes the methodological aspect

Keywords : Occult quality; natural philosophy; analysis and synthesis; manifest quality; gravitational force.

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