This is what i'm learning in my college anthropology class! Everything is a social construct! Up is down! Black is white! Conspiracy!pic.twitter.com/nmHZLAUeEA
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Neil - per Kuhn, scientific facts are social constructs within a paradigm. Paradigm shift = new understanding
To pick a relevant example, Pluto was factually a planet, and then it factually wasn't.
It was reclassified is all. It's still there! Fact!
Yes. That was just an example off the top of my head. Many others have happened, such as the shift from Newtonian physics to modern physics.
Kuhn deeply misunderstood how most discoveries occur in science. For some insights, have a look here: https://www.facebook.com/notes/neil-degrasse-tyson/what-science-is-and-how-and-why-it-works/10153892230401613/ …
And you have deeply misunderstood Kuhn. Verifiable facts can safely coexist with social constructions. Pluto still in orbit; not a planet.
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response from neil = good day
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You should add some Bruno Latour to your fact reading, Dr. Tyson.
You should read someone who understood relativity BEFORE attempting to write about it. Latour = joke
If every science book and fact is destroyed, in a thousand years they’d all be back, because all the same tests would be the same result
You’re naive if you think that.
Have you ever heard of the concept of multiple discovery? Look it up
Of course. Every schoolchild has; you're naive if you don't believe that it's intrinsically linked to history, which is non-deterministic.
It’s not about history or destiny. It’s about time and grey matter.
Dont you believe that if Newton hadnt existed, someone sooner or later would have found a way to explain gravity?
Certainly. I'm not disputing that *many* of the same discoveries would have been made. Just disputing that the results would be identical.
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