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(res extensa), just as the primary characteristic of mind is thought (res cogitans).

Newton

After rejecting Cartesian identification of body with extension, Newton turns to the question of what the nature of the "immobile being"—space or extension itself, distinguished from body—was. He raises three possible definitions for extension: as a kind of substance; or as a kind of accident (a standard philosophical term for

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