id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_igho7togyzfufnl5xtlflvlapy John Byron Manchak On Force in Cartesian Physics* 2009 12 .pdf application/pdf 5409 383 68 the new interpretation avoid the problems faced by the previous commentators, but that it also explains why they viewed Cartesian force as the source of any motion of matter (force) must be attributed to God. This view was adopted in response to inconsistencies found in Richard model, Descartes speaks of the "force each body has" (AT 8a, 66; Garber of the forces (motion or rest as modes of extension). identified with the attributes of existence and duration in a body (stemming from the invariable nature of God), the calculable forces in a body forces are in bodies as modes, "what becomes of Descartes' commitment is "no need" to attribute the property of force to a body (as Garber holds), (Gueroult 1980, 198) tertiary attribute of force of motion or of rest. a substance, how is it that force (something regarded by previous commentators as a variable aspect of bodies) can be an attribute? ./cache/work_igho7togyzfufnl5xtlflvlapy.pdf ./txt/work_igho7togyzfufnl5xtlflvlapy.txt