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    It is not the case that Planetary velocity varies inversely with a planet's distance from the Sun.

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    • 1.Kepler's 'motive power' is a causal posit unsupported by independent evidence, functioning as an ad hoc explanatory placeholder.
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    • 2.A regularity between distance and velocity can be empirically confirmed without positing any radiating causal power as its mechanism.
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    • 3.Hume's critique establishes that inferring a productive causal force from observed constant conjunction exceeds what observation licenses.
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    Reason for 2 of 2
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    • 1.Newton's inverse-square gravitational law, not an inverse-distance power, correctly predicts planetary velocities via centripetal acceleration.
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    • 2.If the true causal mechanism is inverse-square gravity, then Kepler's inverse-distance motive power misidentifies the causal structure entirely.
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    • 3.A claim whose supporting causal story is demonstrably false cannot be considered causally well-grounded, even if its kinematic description is approximately correct.
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    • 1.A motive power irradiates from the Sun and diminishes with distance from the Sun.
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    • 2.The greater the motive power acting on a planet, the faster the planet moves.
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    • 3.Therefore, planets farther from the Sun receive less motive power and move more slowly.
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