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Comparing Historical and Intuitive Explanations of Motion: Does "Naïve Physics" Have a Structure

Abstract

Are students' explanations of motion generated by an underlying structure? We address this question by exploring striking parallels between intuitive explanations and those offered by medieval scholastics. Using the historical record, it is possible to reconstructan inferential structure that generates medieval explanations. W e posit a parallel structure for intuitive explanations.

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