On Mon, 03 Dec 2007 02:12:17 -0800, MonkeeSage wrote: > Being fair, the bulk of Liebniz' writings have also been rejected by > those in related fields. Most modern metaphysicians hold a view closer > to Boston Personalism or at least post-Kantian Personalism (a la Buber), > than monadic unity and pre-established harmony, a la Liebniz. It is an > instance of the genetic fallacy to reject the achievements of a person > in one field, simply because of their failures in another.
I'm not suggesting that Leibniz was any more of a scientist than Newton was, nor am I suggesting that Newton's achievements should be *rejected* (er, except for those pesky Quantum Mechanics and Relativity things...). I'm just saying that we should understand Newton for what he actually was, and not based on the 18th Century revisionism. -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
