From: Max More (maxmore@primenet.com)
Date: Fri Apr 25 1997 - 11:59:09 MDT
At 11:39 PM 4/23/97 +0000, Kathryn wrote:
>
>Lise Meitner [snip]
>attended Max Planck's memorable debates with the logical positivists
>who declared that atoms simply couldn't exist because they couldn't
>be seen.
Philosophical nit-pick: The logical positivists would not say this. They
would say that the question of the existence of atoms is meaningless *if*
they cannot be observed. Any statement that cannot be broken down into
directly observable entities is meaningless to the logical positivists.
Interesting bit of scientific history Kathryn.
Max
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