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The Mathematization of Qualities: A Précis. Literature & Language

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For each précis you will be asked to summarize clearly and concisely, and in your own words (no quotations!), the assigned reading for that class period. The goal of the précis is to explain the reading so well that even a family member or friend could understand the gist without their having read the text themselves. The précis should be sure to include:
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• Mention of the author and text summarized in the précis.
• An explicit statement of the main claim(s) made, along with an explanation of what each claim
means. If a claim involves technical or unclear terminology, the terms should be explained.
• A brief explanation as to why the author is bothering to make this claim or set of claims.
• If the aim of the author is to justify a claim, the argument(s) justifying the claim should be
summarized.
• If the aim of the author is to explain a claim, that explanation should be summarized.
• The précis should conclude by raising either a question or potential criticism.

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Running head: MATHEMATIZATION OF QUALITIES1
The Mathematization of Qualities: A Précis
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MATHEMATIZATION OF QUALITIES

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The Mathematization of Qualities: A Précis


In “What Was Known?” Shapin (1998) offers a broad overview of a primary seventeenth century philosophical enterprise: corpuscular mechanism. In Shapin’s account, major natural philosophers, particularly René Descartes and Robert Boyle, argued for a mathematical view of natural world informed by concepts of “matter” and “motion”. According to a mathematical, or corpuscular mechanism, view, nature is made up of infinitely reducible corpuscles whose qualities (e.g. shape, size and color) define and render each object unique. This mathematization of qualities, explains Shapin, was not always consistent but varied among different natural philosophers. For example, while Descartes was at an extreme end of detailed explanation of corpuscular nature, Boyle, more reserved and consistent to an English natural philosophy convention, only conferred a mathematical/anatomized process of natural reality, or world, and refrained from offering any detailed explanation of how corpuscles “operate” and/or are made up of. In contrast to Aristotelian Atomism convention, according to which “matter” and “form” are inseparable and “substantial forms” flow from physic...
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