Re: PERIMETER INSTITUTE: THERE IS NO SCIENTIFIC METHOD

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From: Rosidae
Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2009 10:42

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On Jan 18, 11:51 am, Pentcho Valev <pva...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> http://www.exchangemagazine.com/morningpost/2009/week2/Monday/0105012...
> Lee Smolin: "How does science work? There is no scientific method."
>
> Paul Feyerabend: "There is only one principle that can be defended
> under all circumstances and in all stages of human development. It is
> the principle: Anything goes."
>
> Feyerabend again: "Having admitted this much, we must also concede the
> possibility of non-argumentative growth in the adult as well as in
> (the theoretical parts of) institutions such as science, religion,
> prostitution, and so on."
>
> Both Smolin and Feyerabend are correct as far as the era of
> Postscientism is concerned. Just an example of how the principle
> "Anything goes" works:
>
> http://streamer.perimeterinstitute.ca/mediasite/viewer/NoPopupRedirec...
> Lee Smolin: "Newton's theory predicts that light goes in straight
> lines and therefore if the star passes behind the sun, we can't see
> it. Einstein's theory predicts that light is bent...."

hahaha, thank you professor Valev

I thought that the path of the light was bended, not the light

thank you again, good work!!!

they put their stoopidities on tapes


>
> Pentcho Valev
> pva...@yahoo.com

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