- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1 The Visible and the Intelligible
- 2 Plato's Early and Late Methods
- 3 Matter and Division
- 4 Analysis and Clarity and Distinctness
- 5 A General Theory of Clarity and Distinctness
- 6 The General Theory Continued
- 7 Enumeration, Quantity, and Measurement
- 8 Synthesis and System Building
- 9 Synthesis and the Principle of Addition
- 10 Metaphysics, Mathematics, and Metaphor
- 11 Material Structure and Calculating Machines
- 12 How Analysis and Synthesis are Related
- 13 Is Matter Real?
- 14 Empirical Ideality, Reality, and Matter
- 15 Empirical Reality and Intelligible Matter
- 16 Transcendental Matter
- Tying up the Loose Ends—Closing Remarks
- Bibliography
- Index
Synthesis and System Building
Synthesis and System Building
- Chapter:
- (p.127) 8 Synthesis and System Building
- Source:
- Matter Matters
- Author(s):
Kurt Smith (Contributor Webpage)
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
This chapter shows how the classes of the enumeration can be combined to form equations in physics. Several critiques of Cartesian physics are considered, specifically originating in Leibniz.
Keywords: unity, equations, modal system, mathematics, physics
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1 The Visible and the Intelligible
- 2 Plato's Early and Late Methods
- 3 Matter and Division
- 4 Analysis and Clarity and Distinctness
- 5 A General Theory of Clarity and Distinctness
- 6 The General Theory Continued
- 7 Enumeration, Quantity, and Measurement
- 8 Synthesis and System Building
- 9 Synthesis and the Principle of Addition
- 10 Metaphysics, Mathematics, and Metaphor
- 11 Material Structure and Calculating Machines
- 12 How Analysis and Synthesis are Related
- 13 Is Matter Real?
- 14 Empirical Ideality, Reality, and Matter
- 15 Empirical Reality and Intelligible Matter
- 16 Transcendental Matter
- Tying up the Loose Ends—Closing Remarks
- Bibliography
- Index
