This thinker's embrace of Newtonian action at a distance in his (*) Metaphysical Foundations of Natural Science led many German scientists to reject field theories.
This thinker theorized that matter is impenetrable and solid because its essence is a dynamic equilibrium of attractive and repulsive forces, in his Physical Monadology. He attempted to answer questions like "How is physics possible?" throughout his fragmentary Opus Postumum. This thinker spurred much of the development of modern chemistry by attacking chemistry as a non-science, since "there can be only as much proper science [in a theory] as there is mathematics therein." This thinker's embrace of Newtonian action at a distance in his (*) Metaphysical Foundations of Natural Science led many German scientists to reject field theories. This thinker famously claimed that biology cannot be a precise science, so there will never be a "Newton of the blade of grass." Both Ernst Mach and Albert Einstein were strongly influenced by this thinker's deduction that space and time are forms of experience, and don't exist outside of it. This thinker used the example "7 + 5 = 12" to demonstrate the existence of synthetic a priori propositions. For 10 points, name this author of Critique of Pure Reason.
This thinker theorized that matter is impenetrable and solid because its essence is a dynamic equilibrium of attractive and repulsive forces, in his Physical Monadology.
Immanuel Kant