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🔴 Forced Changes Only: A New Take on the Law of Inertia

"The thesis of this paper is that such paraphrases of Newton’s First Law are all incorrect, because the law, as Newton stated it, is not just a description of the motion of force-free bodies. It is in fact a stronger, more general principle, constraining the motion of all bodies."

Hoek, D. (2023) ‘Forced Changes Only: A New Take on the Law of Inertia’, Philosophy of Science, 90(1), pp. 60–76. doi: doi.org/10.1017/psa.2021.38.

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