On 10/28/2018 9:17 AM, Philip Thrift wrote:
Instead of relativism, philosophers talk of *perspectivism*.
(Nietzsche is said to be the father of perspectivism. I say, actually,
Kant. ...)
A Scientist sees a bunch of phenomena (recorded as data) and says, I
have written a theory θ in a language λ that models the data!. Other
Scientists say, I have done the same, but mine's "better"! So then
there are a bunch of θ_λs (perspectives). The odd thing is that each
Scientist talks about their pet θ_λ as being the world-as-it-is.
You must be thinking of philosophers. Scientists propose an experiment
to see which theory is better.
Brent
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