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p.199
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p.266
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Gravity isn't a force, because it produces effects without diminishing
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Full Idea:
If gravity be called a force, a cause is supposed which produces effects without itself diminishing, and incorrect conceptions of the causal connexions of things are thereby fostered.
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From:
J.R. Mayer (Remarks on the forces of inorganic Nature [1842], p.199), quoted by Brian Ellis - Scientific Essentialism 8.03
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A reaction:
This seems like a brilliant prelude to the proposal that gravity is actually the 'curvature' of space (whatever that is!).
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