GALILEO’S LAW: ON SOME ARGUMENTS CONCERNING FALLING BODIES
A law saying that heavier bodies fall faster than lighter ones has been held to be refutable independently of empirical experiments, with a priori “thought experiments”. I argue that these thought experiments do not qualify as good arguments against the law.
Authors
- JAMES CARGILE
Institutions
- University of Virginia (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Revista Română de Filosofie Analitică
- Published
- 2024-12-20
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.62229/rrfaxv-1/2
- Primary Topic
- History of Medicine Studies
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00