hibbert@netcom.com wrote:
>
> mlorrey@datamann.com said:
> > If Newton had called it 'electromagnetic attraction', he would have
> > been wrong, and somebody else would have come up with the correct
> > theory of gravity. You seem to be suffering from a very Kuhnian
> > delusion that physical laws are created by people.
>
> I don't understand the attack on Kuhn. What is it in Kuhn (presumably "The
> Structure of Scientific Revolutions") that you connect to a "delusion that
> physical laws are created by people"? My reading of Kuhn was that it takes
> time for people (even scientists) to accept a fundamental change in our
> understanding of how reality works. I didn't think he had said that the
> world hadn't changed until the consensus had settled on the new view.
Kuhn's theory was that all scientific theories are equally and
subjectively valid, and one only gains credence over another due to
class conflict between established scientists and the younger
generations of scientists.
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