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    Zhu Xi's program addressed different explanatory targets ... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Zhu Xi's grasp of inertia and the relativity of motion was inadequate for solving the problems of motion

    Zhu Xi's program addressed different explanatory targets — cosmic coherence, ethical-natural unity — not prediction of projectile trajectories.

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    • 1.Zhu Xi explicitly framed Li (理) as unifying cosmic order and moral principles, not mechanical prediction.
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    • 2.Neo-Confucian metaphysics prioritized understanding human nature's alignment with Heaven, distinct from physics.
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    • 3.Projectile prediction requires mathematized laws of motion absent from Zhu Xi's textual corpus and intellectual context.
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    • 1.Zhu Xi's system claims universal explanatory scope; excluding physical phenomena artificially limits its ambition.
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    • 2.Distinguishing 'ethical' from 'natural' explanatory targets imports modern disciplinary boundaries Zhu Xi didn't recognize.
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    • 3.If Li genuinely governs all phenomena, denying it applies to trajectories contradicts rather than clarifies his philosophy.
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