Hypotheses fingo: interpretación, anticipación e investigación de la naturaleza en los Principia Mathematica de Newton
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Hypoyhesis, Anticipation, Interpretation, Naturalists, MathematiciansAbstract
This paper will attempt to a) understand Newton’s method of Discovery in the context of (i) the dispute between the two prevailing traditions in the Royal Society - the naturalist tradition and the mathematician tradition - and (ii) the influence of Francis Bacon’s proposal aEstudiante de Licenciatura en Filosofía, Universidad de Chile on the naturalist current; and then b) to statement hypotheses non fingo, examining what Newton means by hypothesis and to what extent this statement is consistent with the rest of the proposal in the Principia; and, finally, c) to propose a fourth interpretation - in addition to those already presented by Andrew Janiak - according to which Newton could be understood as a moderate Baconian.
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