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andrewingram on March 30, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: Abstraction: Not what you think it is

Yeah, this is how I think about Newtonian Mechanics -- a useful abstraction.

Koshkin on March 30, 2022 [–]

Starting with “point particle.” (By the way, theoretical mechanics has long been considered part of mathematics.)

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