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Some remarks about Leibniz’s critics to mechanics
Leibniz’s mill argument against mechanical materialism
Beyond the Cartesian conception of extension and its applications to nat-
measured and, therefore, described through a mathematical equation, but
also that we can explain every single natural change by understanding two
things: the parts that constitute the machine, i.e., the gears that make this ma-
chine work, and the way that these parts interact.
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Leibniz believes that we
can only apply this mechanical criterion to explain the interaction of bodies,
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since bodies, according to §79 of his Monadology,
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Howev-
er, he also states that we cannot apply the same criterion to explain the inner
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since their
inner actions, as he states in §2 of his Principles of Nature and of Grace, Based on
Reasonperceptions –that is to say, the representations of the
compound, or of that which is without, in the simple– and its appetitions –that
is to say, its tendencies from one perception to another– which are the prin-
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By grounding mechanics in his dynamics and not only in
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New Essays in Human Understanding
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or, as he claims in the §1 of his Principles of Nature and of Grace,
Based on Reasonsubstance
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while in bodies or
compounds their activity consist in motion, the activity of monads consist in
perception and appetite, two inner activities of this soul-like entities.
When Leibniz state that each body or compound is not one substance but
an aggregate of substances,
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he is also saying that the force that explains mo-
tion, considered as a derivative force, proceeds from an inner primitive force
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According to this approach, as we can see
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, H., ¿Qué es la naturaleza? Introducción losóca a la historia de la
ciencia, México: Porrúa, 2007, p. 87.
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Considerations on vital Principles and Plastic Natures, Loemker, 587; GP VI, 541.
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Loemker, 651; GP VI, 620.
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Monadology, Loemker, 643; GP VI, 607.
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Loemker, 636; Robinet I, 29.
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AA VI, 6, 53.
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Loemker, 636; Robinet I, 27.
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Communicata ex disputationibus cum Fardella, de serie rerum, corporibus et substantiis, et de praede-
terminatione, AA VI, 4B, 1668.
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Leer from Leibniz to De Volder from June 20th of 1703, Loemker, 530; GP II, 251.