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 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.
