Re:Thomas Kuhn changed the way the world looked at science (...
by selimthegrim on Tuesday September 08, 2015 @09:25AM
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It's in a commentary by someone who knew him, and I don't think Feyerabend knew the proper name of the theorem himself.
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Re:Thomas Kuhn changed the way the world looked at science (...
by foldr on Tuesday September 08, 2015 @09:44AM
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"Parading" must mean something different to you than it does to me, then. I'd be wary of taking those sorts of secondary sources too seriously. It is not very difficult to get academics to say mean things about each other.
Re:Thomas Kuhn changed the way the world looked at science (...
by selimthegrim on Tuesday September 08, 2015 @03:49PM
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True but if this is more than calumny, Feyerabend was taking the theorem to mean way more than it meant about our ability to do calculations.
Re:Thomas Kuhn changed the way the world looked at science (...
by foldr on Wednesday September 09, 2015 @04:51AM
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He doesn't appear to ever have written about it. This is a very odd way to criticize him. Why not focus on his published work? He wrote a lot about QM, so his purported total lack of understanding should be evident in that body of work. Much better than digging up some rumors that you can't even provide a reference for. (The commentary that you're referring to appears to be rather well hidden, by the way.)