On Sunday, October 28, 2018 at 7:48:57 PM UTC-5, Brent wrote: > > > > 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 >
I don't see much evidence for that. Look at the 100s of papers on arXiv on all the competing models for quantum gravity, dark matter, dark energy, modified gravity, cosmic inflation, ... And these papers are written mostly by *Ph.D. physicists, n*ot Ph.D. philosophers. - pt -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
