Assertion: newton's principia | /r/CapableOf | presuppose absolute time
Facets:
value: for purposes
type: PURPOSE
value: in other words
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: In other words, the Principia presupposes absolute time and space for purposes of conceptualizing the aim of measurement, but the measurements themselves are always of relative time and space, and the preferred measures are those deemed to be providing the best approximations to the absolute quantities.
text: So, while the Principia presupposes absolute time and space for purposes of conceptualizing absolute motion, the presuppositions underlying all the empirical reasoning about actual motions are philosophically more modest.