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- Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 23:56:43 EST
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- From: Herb Lin <HLIN@NAS.BITNET>
- Subject: Re: Gravity as a social construction
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- >I meant that gravity is a concept invented and used in our society to exlain
- >some physical phenomena.
- >None of us invents the concept of gravity...we inherit it. The concept is
- >social. It is something we agree upon.
- >Steve Tripp
- >ci52@ukanvax.bitnet
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- The concept, sure. But the phenomenon described by that concept, no.
- the phenomenon exists apart from social negotiation.
- herb lin
- HLIN@NAS
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