From: David Harding (davidharding@optusnet.com.au)
Date: Thu Jul 28 2005 - 01:16:26 BST
Paul Turner wrote:
> David,
>
> I said:
>
>>>I think [Rorty's] use of the word "God"
>>>alongside "phlogiston" creates a certain reaction to the notion of
>>
>>erasure
>>
>>>here. "The earth is flat" seems like a good candidate for erasure to me,
>>>for example. Would you want to get that pattern perfect?
>
>
> You replied:
>
>>I think that these ptolemaic patterns have already been intellectually
>>perfected
>>by Galileo who was able to describe our current stimuli and place the
>>ptolemaic
>>patterns in a more cosmically correct place within our patterns (not very
>>high).
>
>
> Paul: I think Ptolemaic patterns worked on the basis that the earth was
> spherical, not flat. But anyway, Copernicus, for example, didn't "work
> around" the geocentric model, he replaced it. Many of the patterns from the
> Ptolemaic model may have survived but I can't see why you insist that they
> were all kept in the heliocentric model.
>
Hello Paul,
David Responds:
Because if they aren't kept in the new patterns, then the old patterns (or any old pattern) cannot be "simply dropped" as Rorty suggests because they are still important and valued.
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