Re: BHA: negativity wins

[Carrol Cox <cbcox@xxxxxxxxx>]

Mervyn Hartwig wrote:
>
>  (4) - and the warrant
> for this is 'discontinuism' in science ie the fact of scientific
> revolutions.


I see this taken for granted in numerous different contexts, but it has
never made any sense to me. I see the slow & halting _appearance_ of
science from 16th through the 19th centuries, and I see various lurches
fwd as earlier advances (e.g. gravity or natural selection)are placed in
wider contexts. But it simply appears to be sloppy diction to call any
of these changes "revolutions." Like the pepsi generation or the mini
skirt revolutions.

Carrol


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