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10-19-2006 9:50 AM 		Reply to: Message 17 by Dr Adequate
10-19-2006 9:37 AM

Now this law is not a thing having causative power;
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A very apt point. All sorts of errors come from treating as a thing or object something (arrgh, this language!) that is not a thing but a process or some such.
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The old phlogiston theory of heat was a good example. Heat was thought to be a substance; now we know it as motion of atoms.
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