SOC SCI H1G Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Science Education, Normal Science, Instrumentalism
21 Jan 2019
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6 kinds of incommensurability: quasi-metaphysical commitments, descartes has physics as well as meditations (shape, matter, and motion) vs. Newton (force, gravity: exemplars, puzzles, standards of evaluation, data/ phenomena, strong kuhn. Mad dog line: no difference between seeing and __ think fell. Seeing as thing returned to its natural place/ was moved by tiny particles/ acted upon by a gravitational force incommensurability between the way we use language: language. Jeff and kyle think these can differ, but don"t rule out rational comparison completely. [allows for some theory-neutral observations ( the needle on the scale points to this )] Yes; newton"s three laws didn"t cover fluid motion at first, but then. Yes; newton"s three laws didn"t cover fluid motion at first, but then they did they did. Yes* but progress doing stuff, not progress describing how the world is (depends on how you describe progress) The world is how we think it is intuitively. The only properties are what we could see.
