Philosophical Analysis of Newton's "Rule V of Reasoning"―The Status of "Sense" in Experimental Philosophy―

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  • ニュートンの「哲学することの規則Ｖ」の哲学的検討－実験哲学における「感覚」の位置－

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In his unpublished manuscripts, Isaac Newton prepared "Rule V of Reasoning" in addition to four rules in the third edition of the Principia. This manuscript indicates that not only external, but also internal phenomena (ex. "I think" [cogito], or "I am" [sum]) could be the object of his experimental philosophy. Although this is abandoned project in the published edition, it is worth to focus on this rule because we can consider it as the projection of Newton's main task of the clarification of the nature of his experimental philosophy. In this rule, he tried to establish his philosophical and scientific position through the contesting against Cartesian "cogito ergo sum".

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