Glenn,
> ELEPHANT:
> Er, Gravity *is* an idea. And that's the whole point. What newton added to
> the transparent fact that apples fall was an idea expressed in mathematics:
> viz, gravity. That this idea expressed in mathematics should *correspond
> to* real life is wonderful. But that it *is* real life is ficxticous:
> apples do not perform mathematical calculations.
GLENN:
> Er, gravity is a force.
ELEPHANT:
"Precisely", as the man said. "Force" as used to include "gravity" is a
concept expressed in mathematics, ie a measurement of the rate of
accelleration. If you can tell me how "rate of accelleration" is not a
mathematically expressed idea, I'll eat my iMac.
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