Newton Did Change His Views from Certainty to Probability

Philosophy of Science 88 (1):169-180 (2021)
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Kirsten Walsh has criticized my interpretation of Newton’s view on the certainty of his new science of color, namely, that it shifted through his long career from one of certainty to probabilism. I...

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Never at Rest. A Biography of Isaac Newton.Richard S. Westfall & I. Bernard Cohen - 1982 - British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 33 (3):305-315.
Newton's "Experimental Philosophy".Alan Shapiro - 2002 - Early Science and Medicine 9 (3):185-217.
Newton: From Certainty to Probability?Kirsten Walsh - 2017 - Philosophy of Science 84 (5):866-878.

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