Matter matters [electronic resource] : metaphysics and methodology in the early modern period / Kurt Smith.

By:

Smith, Kurt, 1961-

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2010.Description: 1 online resource (x, 299 p.) : illISBN:

9780191723155 (ebook) :

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110 22

LOC classification:

BD111

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Oxford scholarship online

Summary: Why is there a material world? Why is it fundamentally mathematical? 'Matter Matters' explores a 17th-century answer to these questions as it emerged from the works of Descartes and Leibniz. Kurt Smith establishes the claim that mathematics is intelligible if, and only if, matter exists.

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Why is there a material world? Why is it fundamentally mathematical? 'Matter Matters' explores a 17th-century answer to these questions as it emerged from the works of Descartes and Leibniz. Kurt Smith establishes the claim that mathematics is intelligible if, and only if, matter exists.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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