Corpuscularianism was associated by its leading proponents with the idea that some of the properties that objects appear to have are artifacts of the perceiving mind: "secondary" qualities as distinguished from "primary" qualities.isaac newton
corpuscularianismintelligibilityatomimmaterialismsecondary qualitiescorpuscleAfter describing the corpuscularian background of Berkeley's work (in, for example, the writing of Boyle, Newton, Locke, and Malebranche), I consider whether Berkeley can endorse the existence of immaterial atoms or corpuscles. ...
analogy depend upon the sub-microscopic textures of ordinary bodies and upon the rapidly moving, imperceptibly tiny corpuscles that surround these bodies.2 Locke's sympathy for corpuscularianism comes out clearly where he describes the implications of our inability to perceive the sub-microscopic ...
micro-corpuscularianismRené DescartesIsaac BeeckmanFrom the early 17th century onwards, the dominant natural philosophy was mechanism: the view that all explanations must ultimately take the form of a reduction to a very economical range of features at the micro-corpuscularian level, e.g., in ...