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- From: Avery Andrews <andaling@FAC.ANU.EDU.AU>
- Subject: hypotheses non fingo
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- [Avery Andrews 930107.9000]
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- My impression was that in Newton's day, physical causation was supposed to
- require physical contact (`physics was things bumping into each other',
- I heard Chomsky say it once), so what Newton was not doing was
- providing a generative model _of the expected kind_, since he had
- action at a distance, without things bumping into each other.
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- Avery.Andrews@anu.edu.au
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