![]() In contradistinction to this denotative meaning of the word "inertia" in Newton's Principia, the denotative meaning of the same word in ordinary discourse is, as the above cited excerpt from your reply asserts, has negative connotations, which may be regarded as "a natural flaw," in your words. ![]() His First Law calls attention to the fact that these planetary bodies are continuously in motion following their orbital paths around the sun because no competing body forces them to alter their accelerated movements, which are based on their respective masses. Quite obviously, Newton uses the word "inertia" with specific reference to physical bodies that belong to the cosmos of the solar system. One of the important and basic key words in the passage cited above which is also in the discussion question is "inertia." Although the cited passage occurred more than two years ago, and your perspectives may have changed since then, I would like simply to express my objection to the way little or no distinction is made between the word "inertia" is employed by Isaac Newton in Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica and the ordinary dictionary meaning of the word "inertia," which is synonymous with a word such as "lethargy," implying an absence of movement ascribed to a living entity (human being, nonhuman animal). ![]()
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