To find an interpretation of the formula F=ma, which is free from illusion, we must turn our attention first of all to the concepts ‘force’ and ‘mass’ themselves. The fact that men have these two words in their languages shows that the concepts expressed by them must be based on some experience that has been man’s long before he was capable of any scientific reflexion. Let us ask what kind of experience this is and by what part of his being he gathers it.