Original scientific paper

Bošković's Analysis of Collision - a Methodological Aspect

Dario Škarica ; Institut za filozofiju, Zagreb, Hrvatska

Abstract

The subject under discussion: The procedure Bošković uses to formulate his interpretation of collision and the role that sensory perception, the very phenomenon of collision, and the principle of continuity (as a principle – according to Bošković – utterly reliable, certain and infallible indeed) have in the procedure. Conclusions: First, sensory perception is merely modified (in some of its details) and not rejected in Boškovi_’s interpretation of collision, as well as explained (in these details); Second, Bošković’s interpretation of collision is based on the induction-corroborated and metaphysically (a priori) demonstrated principle of continuity, which, however, does not mean that the interpretation is deduced from the principle (without any sensory perception); Instead, it emerges from a modification of sensory perception, in which process the principle of continuity has the role of the principle according to which the perception is modified; Third, the immediate cause for the modification and the interpretation is the very phenomenon of collision, as a phenomenon in a specific sense, i.e. as an exception to the principle of continuity requiring special attention and demanding specific explication so that it might be concerted with the certain and infallible principle indeed.

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Hrčak ID:

72235

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/72235

Publication date:

3.12.2001.

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