This is a really smart piece Eric, tnx for posting it! I esp. liked the point about the empiricists finding collision itself incomprehensible--I *knew* that in some funky way, but never so nice and cleanly as you put it. Excellent!
The whole thing about seeking a unified account of 𝑏𝑜𝑑𝑦 of course *precisely* nails what's spurring Leibniz on in his attempts to develop his 𝑵𝒆𝒘 𝑺𝒄𝒊𝒆𝒏𝒄𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝑫𝒚𝒏𝒂𝒎𝒊𝒄𝒔: to somehow inhere the forces of movement and energy in body itself, rather than leave it an inert, lifeless thing.
This is a really smart piece Eric, tnx for posting it! I esp. liked the point about the empiricists finding collision itself incomprehensible--I *knew* that in some funky way, but never so nice and cleanly as you put it. Excellent!
The whole thing about seeking a unified account of 𝑏𝑜𝑑𝑦 of course *precisely* nails what's spurring Leibniz on in his attempts to develop his 𝑵𝒆𝒘 𝑺𝒄𝒊𝒆𝒏𝒄𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝑫𝒚𝒏𝒂𝒎𝒊𝒄𝒔: to somehow inhere the forces of movement and energy in body itself, rather than leave it an inert, lifeless thing.
Yes, Leibniz is rather important to their argument.