L'évidence morale dans la philosophie naturelle de Willem’s Gravesande

In his Philosophiae newtonianae Institutiones (1723), ’s Gravesande seeks to maintain both an empiricist methodology and Leibniz's principle of the conservation of kinetic energy (vis viva, or « living force »). This paradoxical ambition stimulates his epistemological inventivity, focusing particularly on the conceptualisation of self-evidence.