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BENITEZ GROBERT, Laura. El argumento de la simplicidad y los conceptos de espacio y tiempo en Samule Clarke. Tópicos [online]. 2005, n.13, pp.113-129. ISSN 1666-485X.

The author of this study intends to point out the importance of the argument of simplicity in the development of the ideas of space and time in Samuel Clarke and their incidence in newtonianism. Thus, she first intends to uncover the importance that the notion of simplicity possesses for Samuel Clark's dualism, in which extension and simplicity connect with one another, when we consider that God's immensity is indivisible extension. On the other hand, she goes through the vicissitudes of the argument of simplicity with regard to the physical notions of space and time, to conclude that Clarke's simples (space and time) stand very near the concepts of absolute space and time in Newton. Finally, an explanation comes of how, in Clarke's opinion, the human soul, being a simple substance, and therefore indivisible, is nevertheless an extensive substance; in this case, the parts, as Clarke conceives them, are not coarse and differentiated, but alike and inseparable, which Leibnitz is thought to have reduced to a single entity, in view of his argument of the identity of indiscernibles.

Palabras clave : infiniteness; spiritual extension; indiscernibility; simplicity; vacuity/plenitude.

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