Assertion: newton | /r/CapableOf | write absurdity
Facets:
value: so great
type: DEGREE
value: in his third letter to bentley
type: TEMPORAL
value: in 1692
type: TEMPORAL
Source sentences:
text: In 1692, in his third letter to Bentley, he wrote: "That one body may act upon another at a distance through a vacuum without the mediation of anything else, by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one another, is to me so great an absurdity that, I believe, no man who has in philosophic matters a competent faculty of thinking could ever fall into it.