I think “the-astronomical-analyzability-of-the-pulsar” just means that, in virtue of masses of theory and equipment, they were able to >
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interpret the Fourier signal peak *as* a pulsar, although in material fact it was just a dot crawling upward on the oscilloscope.
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OK good I was assuming something like that, but wasn't sure!
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That act of interpretation is prob the key thing I'm interested in here (and used to think about specifically in context of radio pulsars)..
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...it's interesting because as a theorist you never know the whole pipeline from observational mess to neat theory...
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...I assumed *someone* studied this but didn't know who.
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Astonishing coincidence that you, as a scientist in precisely this field, would have formed an interest in ethno b4 knowing of this study!
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So I’ve just finished first read-through. There’s an enormous amount going on in this paper, most of it inaccessible unless you know ethno
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Yep, I'd have given up with this quite quickly, so thanks for doing this!
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(I just got pulled away for an hour by a student having a math emergency… summary of buried main point to follow)
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So my tentative reading is the hidden central theme is objects and perception/measurement, which is what phil of science got stuck&failed on
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Logical positivism, which was the last philosophically serious rational account of science, assumed objects were objectively separable >
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