On Monday, October 29, 2018 at 3:06:42 AM UTC-5, Philip Thrift wrote: > > > > 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 > > > Another example (this from a budding Ph.D. physicist):
http://sciencenordic.com/gravity-it-all-your-head *Gravity: it is all in your head* February 1, 2018 *We take it for granted that gravity pulls things towards the Earth. But in reality this is just one of many explanations. And they are all equally made up.* *t is fascinating to think that all of our language used in physics could have turned out very differently.* *If we one day meet aliens from another world, we will agree how an apple falls from a tree. But we probably won’t agree why.* By: Niels Jakob Søe Loft, PhD student, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Aarhus University, Denmark. Note that this is from a *physics department*, not a philosophy department! It has the basic truth about physics theories: *they are all equally made up.* - 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 [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
