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Re:Physical Intuition, Not Mathematics (2011) by wyager on Sunday July 05, 2015 @01:46AM (#9832606)
I'm not sure why you're being downvoted; you're absolutely right that, intuitively, humans seem to understand physics in a Aristotelian manner. It's quite obvious why; Aristotelian physics is an efficiently computable approximation of real physics that works OK for caveman level technology on earth.

This is very similar to how scientists for a long time believed in classical Newtonian mechanics, because it's a reasonable approximation of the truth at large scales and low velocities.

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Re:Physical Intuition, Not Mathematics (2011) by jessriedel on Sunday July 05, 2015 @08:40AM (#9833344)
His comment has technical errors, but more importantly it just doesn't address the parent's argument. It's a non sequitur.
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