On 1/28/2014 12:32 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote:
Yes, and most of the time, such eliminativism is a progress. WE eliminate the terms of the obsolete theories, like phlogiston, or like the cold and hot atoms of Lavoisier, or the N rays, etc.

Just as an aside, "N rays" is now used to describe neutron radiography

http://www.nray.ca/nray/res_XvsN.php

I laugh every time I see an engineering specification that calls out "N ray inspection". Engineers never heard of Blondlot.

Brent

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