Argument
Force
Overview
physical influence that tends to cause an object to change motion unless opposed by other forces
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In the Newtonian system, bodies under the action of no forces move in straight lines with uniform velocity; when bodies do not move in this way, their change of motion is ascribed to a “force.” Some forces seem intelligible to our imagination: those exerted by a rope or string, by bodies colliding, or by any kind of obvious pushing or pulling. As explained in an earlier chapter, our apparent imaginative…
Bertrand Russell, The A B C of Relativity
The chapter “CHAPTER XIII: THE ABOLITION OF “FORCE”” is titled for Force; names Force several times.
Matter and Motion, as we know them, are differently conditioned manifestations of Force. Space and Time, as we know them, are disclosed along with these different manifestations of Force as the conditions under which they are presented.
Herbert Spencer, First Principles
The chapter “CHAPTER V. SPACE, TIME, MATTER, MOTION, AND FORCE.” is titled for Force; names Force several times.
It has long been known that heat is capable of producing electricity, and electricity heat; that mechanical motion in numerous cases produces and is produced by them both; and so of all other physical forces. It has of late become the general belief of scientific inquirers that mechanical force, electricity, magnetism, heat, light, and chemical action (to which has subsequently been added vital action) are not so…
John Stuart Mill, A System of Logic
Names Force several times; states what Force is.
Philosophers who discussed Force
- Avicenna
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
- Friedrich Adolf Trendelenburg
- Ludwig Büchner
- Heraclitus
- Jean Buridan
- Ludwig Boltzmann
- Maine de Biran
- Ibn Malka al-Baghdadi
Related ideas
- Aristotelian physics
- Fundamental interaction
- General relativity
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
- Philosophy
- Physics (Aristotle)
- Gravitational field
- Kepler's laws of planetary motion
- Internet Archive
- Archimedes
- Neptune
- Mass
- Moon
- Classical mechanics
- Mechanics
- Mercury (planet)
- Pierre Gassendi
- Maxwell's equations
- Momentum
- Velocity
- Subatomic particle
- Drag (physics)
- Optics
- Observation
Place in the tradition
Part of Australian philosophy.