On 10/26/07, Jim Devine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It is true that _some_ theories are bad. But that doesn't say that we > should reject all theory in education psychology (or any other field). > Please _tell me_ why you think that theories of cognition are as bad > as phlogiston theory. Why, specifically, do you reject the idea of > multiple intelligences? > > To me, _all_ theory (including in the blessed field of physics) is > "bad" in the sense that no theory is the final word _on anything_. > Each conclusion is merely a working hypothesis to be tested both > empirically and logically, in practice and using methodology.
The phlogiston theory itself was not so bad - Fourier's theory of heat conduction as well as Carnot's classic analysis of heat engines (that later became the Second Law) were both based on phlogiston. No genocides were committed on its account either. -raghu.
