Re: MD Access to Quality

From: ian glendinning (psybertron@gmail.com)
Date: Tue Apr 26 2005 - 02:20:56 BST

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    Sorry Sam, but that's not a "quibble".

    My point precisely is that "evidence" is loaded in some logical
    positivist empirical test sense and no astronomer / scientist, however
    genius / inspired was going to have that kind of "evidence".

    It's the classic religious - "go on, prove me wrong" challenge -
    utterly meaningless, based on a scientific misunderstanding about
    "proof" - focussing only on scientific method. And as I pointed out
    elsewhere characterising it as "Farewell to Reason" is really
    "Farewell to old logical positivist reason, and on to new higher
    quality reason."

    Ian

    On 4/25/05, Sam Norton <elizaphanian@kohath.wanadoo.co.uk> wrote:
    > Hi Scott,
    > Another quibble.
    >
    > > Scott:
    > > (Galileo had to recant because he claimed that heliocentrism was
    > > true, and therefore the Bible was false, which at the time was heresy. He
    > > would have been okay if he had just said that the heliocentric model was a
    > > better model for producing calculations.)
    >
    > Please see my MD Galileo post from last Autumn, which touched on this. If
    > Galileo had evidence for backing up his assertions the church authorities
    > were prepared to back down. He didn't, so they didn't. (I'm drawing on
    > Feyarebend's discussion of it in his Farewell to Reason).
    >
    > Regards
    > Sam
    >
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