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work_blmumvkscfhyneaqoqv372jwga	Marius Stan	Unity for Kant's Natural Philosophy	2014	21	.pdf	application/pdf	9837	954	75	Several times in Metaphysical Foundations of Natural Science, Kant claims to offer the "laws of general mechanics" ð1911, 551; cf. And, Kant declares, the "necessary condition" for mechanics is synthetic a priori laws of matter as such ði.e., as moventÞ. To illustrate his point, Kant constructs a special case, the direct collision of two symmetric bodies in pure translation.5 Now classical continuum mechanics is built on two dynamical principles: the Force Law, a generalization of Newton's Lex Secunda, and the Torque Law.7 Kant has an analogue Thus, in "Genuina principia doctrinae de statu aequilibrii et motu corporum tam perfecte flexibilium quam elasticorum," Euler showed that the external actions on an element in a plane elastic continuum come in two kinds: forces and "moments Law of Inertia for rotation, that is, the principle that, in the absence of external unbalanced forces, a continuous body does not change its own angular momentum.22	./cache/work_blmumvkscfhyneaqoqv372jwga.pdf	./txt/work_blmumvkscfhyneaqoqv372jwga.txt