My favourite essays are often syncretic: they unify (or partially unify, as in this case) two points of view that are commonly portrayed as opposites or incompatible. Whether someone wants (or wanted) kids or not, there's something in this lovely essay.https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1205892197154988032 …
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In this case (and others discussed by Kuhn, such as the development of understanding of mixtures vs covalent compounds) the dispute turned on what the relevant ontology was. That’s prior to figuring out what theory is best once you have a workable ontology.
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Generally rationalist theories assume you've got a pile of data, and you are trying to figure out which theory is "best," according to some criterion or other, relative to the data. But there aren't any "data" independent of ontology.
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