Assertion: body's acceleration | /r/HasProperty | measured
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text: In particular, since Newton's eight definitions and three laws indicate that forces are proportional to mass and to acceleration, and since mass—or the quantity of matter, a concept Newton transformed from its Cartesian origins, where it was understood as a measure of a body's volume—and acceleration are both quantities that can be measured, Newton gives us a means of measuring forces.