Assertion: newton | /r/CapableOf | object to leibniz's reasoning
Facets:
value: on methodological grounds
type: CAUSE
Source sentences:
text: A debate between the two philosophers on this score would bring them to the question of the mechanical philosophy: whereas Newton would object to Leibniz's reasoning on methodological grounds, Leibniz would reply that Newton's theory of gravity involves action at a distance, which his vortex hypothesis avoids (see below for more details).