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Given these natural laws, mankind derived a picture of the universe that accounts neatly for mass, position, and the motion of the celestial bodies while it interprets the latter as dynamic elements of a celestial apparatus, not unlike that of a mechanical apparatus.
My question is about the last line; it starts with NOT UNLIKE. Doesn't that mean LIKE - NOT and the prefix UN nullifying the negative. If that is so then why use such a construction...
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Given these natural laws, mankind derived a picture of the universe that accounts neatly for mass, position, and the motion of the celestial bodies while it interprets the latter as dynamic elements of a celestial apparatus, not unlike that of a mechanical apparatus.
My question is about the last line; it starts with NOT UNLIKE. Doesn't that mean LIKE - NOT and the prefix UN nullifying the negative. If that is so then why use such a construction...
CB
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Hi, Pleas read the para below. Given these natural laws, mankind derived a picture of the universe that accounts neatly for mass, position, and the motion of the celestial bodies while it interprets the latter as dynamic elements of a celestial apparatus, not unlike that of a mechanical apparatus. My question is about the last line; it starts with NOT UNLIKE.
- Hi, Pleas read the para below.
- Given these natural laws, mankind derived a picture of the universe that accounts neatly for mass, position, and the motion of the celestial bodies while it interprets the latter as dynamic elements of a celestial apparatus, not unlike that of a mechanical apparatus.
- My question is about the last line; it starts with NOT UNLIKE.
- Doesn't that mean LIKE - NOT and the prefix UN nullifying the negative.
- If that is so then why use such a construction...
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Hi,
Pleas read the para below.
Given these natural laws, mankind derived a picture of the universe that accounts neatly for mass, position, and the motion of the celestial bodies while it interprets the latter as dynamic elements of a celestial apparatus, not unlike that of a mechanical apparatus.
My question is about the last line; it starts with NOT UNLIKE. Doesn't
Pleas read the para below.
Given these natural laws, mankind derived a picture of the universe that accounts neatly for mass, position, and the motion of the celestial bodies while it interprets the latter as dynamic elements of a celestial apparatus, not unlike that of a mechanical apparatus.
My question is about the last line; it starts with NOT UNLIKE. Doesn't
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