(3) In addition to the (relatively) basic powers of natural inertia and solidity, Leibniz recognizes two further derived passive powers of bodies.
This section looks first at Leibniz's critiques of the two most important of those conceptions before turning to his own positive account of the passive powers of bodies.
That is, the Bishop of Worcester here assumes that the powers of bodies and their resulting species memberships are determined by physical similarities (and hence the causal similarities) in real essences.
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His most consuming worry as a philosopher was that if complete mechanistic explanations could not be offered for phenomena like gravitational attraction or the powers of bodies to make us have sensations that do not resemble those bodies, then the materialist philosopher would be able to argue that in the same way that these somehow happen, bodies somehow think.
Leibniz took this to entail that there are powers of bodies that are not reducible to or accountable for in terms of their extensive quantities; this essentially entails a rejection of the Cartesian idea that the essence of body is exhausted by extension.
On the positive side, Leibniz thought that by treating forces as inherent powers of bodies tied inextricably to their ability to move and be moved, his own conception of force could preserve the intelligibility that was the great hallmark of mechanism, while nonetheless improving upon the work of those such as Huygens, Descartes and Galileo.
The nose is the pathway to love * It is through the baby's bond with its mother that the power of body odour is established, scientists believe.
The themes of darkness that lie beneath the action, adventure, romance and star power of "Body of Lies" are oddly similar to those animating "The Dark Knight": ruthlessness, political expediency and moral bankruptcy.
