2 AN EXPERIENTIAL THEORY OF ATTRACTION-BASED INFLUENCE (UNINTENDED AND INTENDED)
Introduction
When the objects of an inquiry, in any department, have principles, conditions, or elements, it is through acquaintance with these that knowledge, that is to say scientific knowledge, is attained. For we do not think that we know a thing until we are acquainted with its primary conditions or first principles, and have carried our analysis as far as its simplest elements. Plainly therefore in the science of Nature, as in other branches of study, our first task will be to try to determine what relates to its principles.
(Aristotle, Physics, bk. 1, p.1)
What are the principles of attraction-based influence ...
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