On 10/29/2018 1:06 AM, 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.
And some propose empirical tests. Have you seen even one philosopher
propose an empirical test?
Brent
Phyicist: I need $200,000 for a new vacuum chamber to test my theory.
Dean: You physicists, always asking for money. Why can't you be like
the mathematicians? All they need are pencil, paper, and erasers. Or
like the philosophers. All they need is pencil and paper.
- pt
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