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Re: Equation or Formula

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From: "Joseph Bellina" <jbellina@saintmarys.edu>
Subject: Re: Equation or Formula


How about, it is neither, since we really don't know what a force is,
and don't independently know what mass is, the best we can do is say
that it is an organizing principle for seeing the relation among these
interdependent quantities.

comments?

Newspeak? Too many 'Philosophy of Science' courses?

:-)

Rick