Do you understand the tides, Colonel Barnes, simply because you know to say ‘gravity’?”
Yes, be cause saying 'gravity' in fact means the Newton gravitational law. Aristotle had no idea, that e. g. the product of two masses is involved here.
Does Colonel Barnes? If not, he is just repeating a word he has learned to say. Rather like some people today who have learned to say "entanglement", or "signalling", or "evolution", or...
Another month has passed and here is a new rationality quotes thread. The usual rules are: