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By analyzing the epistemic limitation of the knowing subject, namely the confused perception of phenomenaPhenomena, less as a defect than as a mark of the identity of the epistemic subject, Emilie du Châtelet contributes to the transformation of the eighteenth-century conception of knowledgeKnowledge. Analyzing the close dialogue with Leibnizian epistemologyEpistemology at work in the Institutions de physique, Anne-Lise Rey shows how reflection on the relationship between the certain and the probableProbable clarifies the singularity of Emilie du Châtelet's position.

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The Certain and the Probable in Émilie du Châtelet’s Institutions de Physique

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    2025年

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  • Anne-Lise Rey

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By analyzing the epistemic limitation of the knowing subject, namely the confused perception of phenomenaPhenomena, less as a defect than as a mark of the identity of the epistemic subject, Emilie du Châtelet contributes to the transformation of the eighteenth-century conception of knowledgeKnowledge. Analyzing the close dialogue with Leibnizian epistemologyEpistemology at work in the Institutions de physique, Anne-Lise Rey shows how reflection on the relationship between the certain and the probableProbable clarifies the singularity of Emilie du Châtelet's position.