Assertion: newton's body | /r/CapableOf | act on each other
Facets:
value: through contact
type: MANNER
Source sentences:
text: Descartes' book of 1644 Principia philosophiae (Principles of philosophy) stated that bodies can act on each other only through contact: a principle that induced people, among them himself, to hypothesize a universal medium as the carrier of interactions such as light and gravity
text: The reason for this is that both forces are acting on the same body, while Newton’s Third Law describes two different bodies acting on each other.