Parts of Falling Objects: Galileo’s Thought Experiment in Mereological Setting
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DOI: 10.1007/s10670-020-00263-y
Abstract: This paper aims to formalize Galileo’s argument (and its variations) against the Aristotelian view that the weight of free-falling bodies influences their speed. I obtain this via the application of concepts of parthood and of mereological… read more here.
Keywords: falling objects; experiment mereological; thought experiment; objects galileo ... See more keywords