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**saturninus.ribb** · 08-16-2012, 03:18 PM

Inertia is a hypothetical property to which we attribute an object's conserving of momentum.

Seems a strange way to put it to me. Why do you call it a "hypothetical" property?

**Hammaduersnes** · 08-19-2012, 09:12 PM

Seems a strange way to put it to me. Why do you call it a "hypothetical" property?

I mean it's seems to be a property that brings about a kind of behaviour, but we don't know what that property is in itself other than we say it is evidenced (word?) by the behaviour, and without any explanation of how it would do that. Like a vitus dormitiva.

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/dormitive_principle

**Eltabaco** · 08-20-2012, 04:32 PM

Thanks guys for all your input

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saturninus.ribb Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 378 Senior Member	Inertia is a hypothetical property to which we attribute an object's conserving of momentum. Seems a strange way to put it to me. Why do you call it a "hypothetical" property? Share Share this post on Digg Del.icio.us Technorati Twitter
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08-19-2012, 09:12 PM	#82
Hammaduersnes Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 701 Senior Member	Seems a strange way to put it to me. Why do you call it a "hypothetical" property? I mean it's seems to be a property that brings about a kind of behaviour, but we don't know what that property is in itself other than we say it is evidenced (word?) by the behaviour, and without any explanation of how it would do that. Like a vitus dormitiva. http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/dormitive_principle Share Share this post on Digg Del.icio.us Technorati Twitter
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08-20-2012, 04:32 PM	#83
Eltabaco Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 490 Senior Member	Thanks guys for all your input Share Share this post on Digg Del.icio.us Technorati Twitter
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