cladking
Well-Known Member
Anyone who considers Newton a magician or merely an "alchemist should read pgs 31 to 35;
https://www.hrstud.unizg.hr/_downlo...etaphysical_Foundations_of_Modern_Science.pdf
Newton changed not only math and science but the way people think. We can hardly see newtonian metaphysics because it's part and parcel of the way we think.
We don't see that Newton's vision was primitive and that there's no reason to believe in "laws of physics" handed down by some Creator or an equivalency with mathematics. We can't even see the nature of mathematics as quantified logic because of Newton. We tend to see epistemology and metaphysics in light of Newton's beliefs.
https://www.hrstud.unizg.hr/_downlo...etaphysical_Foundations_of_Modern_Science.pdf
Newton changed not only math and science but the way people think. We can hardly see newtonian metaphysics because it's part and parcel of the way we think.
We don't see that Newton's vision was primitive and that there's no reason to believe in "laws of physics" handed down by some Creator or an equivalency with mathematics. We can't even see the nature of mathematics as quantified logic because of Newton. We tend to see epistemology and metaphysics in light of Newton's beliefs.