Newtonian Emanation, Spinozism, Measurement and the Baconian Origins of the Laws of Nature (2013)
Newton's commitment to the spatial extended-ness of all existing beings. While the first two sections of this paper engage with existing scholarly controversies, in the final section the paper argues that the recent focus on emanation has obscured the importance of Newton's very interesting claims about existence and measurement in DeGrav. The paper argues that according to Newton God and other entities have the same kind of quantities of existence; Newton is concerned with how measurement clarifies the way of being of entities. Newton is not claiming that measurement reveals all aspects of an entity. But if we measure something then it exists as a magnitude in space and as a magnitude in time. This is why in DeGrav Newton's conception of existence really helps to lay truer foundations of the mechanical sciences.
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