So is "force" and its basic definition has been well-understood for far longer than its precise definition. But for anyone practicing anywhere near physics you

So is "force" and its basic definition has been well-understood for far longer than its precise definition. But for anyone practicing anywhere near physics you ought to learn and recognize the formalization. People reinvent it all the time, to varying degrees of validity, but it's fairly clear how to draw all of this back to Newton and then connect it to the mainline formal development which has occurred since then.