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The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 2003 54(2):319-326; doi:10.1093/bjps/54.2.319
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Taking Self-Excitations Seriously: On Angel's Initial Condition

Jon Pérez Laraudogoitia1

1 Departamento de Lógica y Filosofía de la Ciencia, Facultad de Filología (Universidad del País Vasco), Paseo de la Universidad 5, Apartado 2111, 01006 Vitoria-Gasteiz, SPAIN. e-mail: ylppelaj{at}vc.ehu.es

In a recent article, L. Angel ([2001]) argues that if we do not implement Newtonian physics adding to it a certain usual type of boundary condition, then this leads to the rejection of what he calls the P principle: ‘the composition of contact interactions does not create a noncontact interaction.’ Here I shall demonstrate that this conclusion does not follow. However, as will be made clear, this in no way diminishes the interest or importance of the model introduced by Angel in his paper.

1 Introduction

2 The ‘impact without contact’ argument

3 Taking self-excitations seriously

4 Some interesting implications


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