Versuch, den Begriff der negativen Grössen in die Weltweisheit einzuführen

In an essay, “Versuch, den Begriff der negativen Grössen in die Weltweisheit einzuführen” (1763; “An Attempt to Introduce the Conception of Negative Quantities into Philosophy”), he argued that physical opposition as encountered in things cannot be reduced to logical contradiction, in which the same predicate is both affirmed…