To: The Truth Will Make You Free
Rather than adjusting facts to support the theory, he changes the theory to support the facts. The search for truth is not achieved by replacing incorrect theories with correct ones; it's done by replacing incorrect theories with new ones that are more subtly wrong.
To: CubicleGuy
Theories shouldn't be judged in a two-valued system of "correct" and "incorrect", but on a continuous, opened-ended scale proceeding from worse to better. The "complete, perfect theory" being an unattainable end. And maybe a one-dimensional scale is inadequate.
55 posted on
11/19/2001 11:37:02 AM PST by
Aurelius
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