 | Brian Davies - Philosophy - 2006 - 294 pages
...III, Part I (in Great Books of the Western World, Vol. 34, p. 540): "By this principle [vis inertiae] alone there never could have been any motion in the world. Some other principle was necessary for putting bodies into motion; and now they are in motion, some other principle is necessary... | |
 | David Ray Griffin - Philosophy - 2012 - 318 pages
...immaterial agent, God." 2i Newton, having pointed out that inertia is merely a passive principle, declared: "By this Principle alone there never could have been...any Motion in the World. Some other Principle was necessary for putting Bodies into Motion." The necessity of thinking of matter as moved by "certain... | |
 | Richard P. McKeon - Philosophy - 1994 - 420 pages
...comes back to his statement that the vis inertiae. the force of inertia, "is a passive principle. ... By this principle alone there never could have been any motion in the world." There must be another principle "for putting bodies into motion; and now they are in motion, some other... | |
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The vis inertiae is a passive Principle by which Bodies persist in their Motion or Rest, receive Motion in proportion to the Force impressing it, and resist as much as they are resisted. By this Principle alone there never could have been any Motion in... 
