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The actual form of Newton’s theory of gravity is not, even schematically, ‘All unsupported objects fall’, but rather ‘The gravitational force on one body due to another is proportional to the product of the masses divided by the square of the distance between them and acts along the line connecting the two’. That’s not something you can mindlessly read off the world.
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Philosophy of Physics: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)
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