[Avodah] Geocentrism

[Zev Sero]

On 30/07/2013 11:11 AM, David Riceman wrote:
> I don't think that's true.  A hint in your own paragraph is the
> elision from "descriptive" to "explains".  That is, physicists don't
> think they are making a convenient summary of how the world works;
> they think that the possibility of such a convenient summary implies
> something deep about the structure of the world which helps explain
> that structure.

> And their objection to geocentrism is precisely that it denies the
> value of that deep explanation.

This is not true.   Any number of models could explain our observations,
and there is no reason to suppose that the one which is simplest to use,
or which seems most elegant, is more "true" than any other.

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Zev Sero
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