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David C Geary

Filling The Pail

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The Inquila Pice

Newton said that the vulgar understand things like physical motion based on a their observations. And there are certain biases. So if you think something is turning in cular way, and it an goes off a ramp, yot, many people think it's going to continue to turni in circle,. rather than yo, go in whatever direction it was when it's left the the ramp. He went beyond that. He used geometry proofs mathematics to say that we can explicitly understand the motion of bodiesdand how that, how that works - not just by observation. We can show that certain a tily to the vulgar really doe.

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