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From: colonel@sunybcs.UUCP (George Sicherman)
Newsgroups: net.philosophy
Subject: Re: Galileo's metaphysics
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Date: Sun, 5-Feb-84 02:21:03 EST
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Posted: Sun Feb  5 02:21:03 1984
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Doesn't common sense tell you that heavy objects fall faster
than light ones?  As the "naive physics" school of A.I. points
out, many physical truths are counterintuitive.  What Galileo
was saying is that you can learn [and unlearn, I might add] a
lot about the physical world from a well-designed experiment.

			Col. G. L. Sicherman
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