> Rather, it makes Newton's theory a special case of GR ... Newtonian mechanics (and gravity) are a special-case approximation of relativistic theories. To me

> Rather, it makes Newton's theory a special case of GR ... Newtonian mechanics (and gravity) are a special-case approximation of relativistic theories. To me that's no biggie, but to some philosophers I've spoken to take the attitude that "approximately right is still wrong". That sounds silly to me, but they have a point which might made better by emphasising the special-case nature of the approximation. Within Newtonian mechanics, there is no hint that it is a special case of something, it's validity seems to go on for ever. And it is that seeming which is not even approximately correct.