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The article presents information on the book "The Sciences and Philosophy" by J.S. Haldane. Haldane begins with the analysis of the element of pure assumption in Newtonian physics. Physical reality is ultimately reducible to infinitesimal and independent particles, which are capable of acting upon one another only in a fashion determined by their mass and relative position. Haldane, after reviewing the difficulties inherent in both the mechanistic and vitalistic theories, comes to the conclusion that neither is tenable, and proposes a solution which involves the rejection of the fundamental Newtonian postulate.
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