Retroactively, after decades of difficult work by top philosophers, we understand this test of relativity as a triumph of the scientific worldview. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tests_of_general_relativity …pic.twitter.com/nazVLAd7F3
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Logical positivism finally disintegrated altogether in the 1960s. It failed not for one reason, but for dozens, each individually fatal. I know of no discussion enumerating them all. _The Eggplant_ covers more of them than any source I’ve found.https://meaningness.com/eggplant
Logical positivism was the last serious attempt to rescue rationalism. All subsequent rationalisms have been unserious, in the sense that they don’t even try to address the well-known problems that wrecked the logical positivist program.
No coincidence the postmodern era began shortly after logical positivism collapsed. Rationalism was the foundational ideology of modernity. Without that, the essential chain of justification broke, and the ship of modernity was wrecked on the stormy seas of meaning.pic.twitter.com/F0m2yM2M9u
Science still works, some of the time, of course. Rationality is still better than irrationality. Why? Stubborn clinging to the wreck of rationalism renders asking that question impossible—much less answering it.
We’re still floundering in the storm of postmodern irrationalism, announced by the NYT 100 years ago today. We can do better. We can rebuild the flotsam of a broken modernity into new, sea-worthy watercraft.https://twitter.com/Meaningness/status/1193573460103946240 …
Follow-up to this thread. Several replies objected that relativity couldn’t have been a shock, because science consists of replacing incomplete approximate theories with successively better ones. >
This is not at all how science was understood in 1900. Science in those days found absolute, eternal, exact Truths. The “successively better theories” story, taught in high school now, was invented in the 20th century precisely to account for relativity and quantum.
Any sources on logical positivism struggling more with quantum theory than relativity?
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