George Walsh on The Enlightenment
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Newton's Principles of Reasoning and Philosophy
Newton's philosophy of science was important in igniting the Enlightenment. Nowhere is this laid down more clearly than in Book 3 of the Principia. Descartes denied that any true judgment could be made of the wax, not even that it was a single body on the basis of sense perception alone. But since we perceive extension in all that we perceive by the senses, we thrive at universally to all others also.
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