From: hibbert@netcom.com
Date: Tue Aug 28 2001 - 14:15:08 MDT
mlorrey@datamann.com said:
> If Newton had called it 'electromagnetic attraction', he would have
> been wrong, and somebody else would have come up with the correct
> theory of gravity. You seem to be suffering from a very Kuhnian
> delusion that physical laws are created by people.
I don't understand the attack on Kuhn. What is it in Kuhn (presumably "The
Structure of Scientific Revolutions") that you connect to a "delusion that
physical laws are created by people"? My reading of Kuhn was that it takes
time for people (even scientists) to accept a fundamental change in our
understanding of how reality works. I didn't think he had said that the
world hadn't changed until the consensus had settled on the new view.
Chris
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