Gary F.,
maybe i misread your original post. I was triggered by "and historically,
there’s a lot of truth to that". Knee jerk reaction pushing an already open
door...
Best
Stefan
Am 14. Juli 2016 15:47:42 MESZ, schrieb g...@gnusystems.ca:
>Stefan, I would concur with everything you say
Stefan, I would concur with everything you say here. “Revolt against authority”
as a founding myth of “modern science” is, to me, not a hypothesis but an
oversimplified story (all stories are simplified to some degree). One can find
traces of it in, for example, the “Cosmos” television series,
Gary F.,
yes i agree, Peirce reading of the history of science is based on the idea that
we are standing on shoulders of giants.
But i doubt the revolt against authority hypothesis. Take for example Galileo,
he never revolted against the church. He was deeply rooted in the tradition of
