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    Steven Pinker‏Verified account @sapinker Jun 3

    The Defeat of Reason: Philosopher Tim Maudlin rebuts the influential relativism of Bohr's interpretation of quantum mechanics and Kuhn's interpretation of science.http://bostonreview.net/science-nature-philosophy-religion/tim-maudlin-defeat-reason#.WxQZBNLR-NA.twitter …

    9:39 AM - 3 Jun 2018
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      2. Moloch's Bartender‏ @GerardHarbison Jun 3
        Replying to @sapinker

        Ugh, no. The only indeterminacy here is whether the review properly represents the book, and the book is awful; or the book is OK, and the reviewer didn’t understand it. Either way, I don’t care. Philosophers should not write about QM; this is just one more data point.

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      3. Adam Becker‏ @FreelanceAstro Jun 3
        Replying to @GerardHarbison @sapinker

        The review accurately reflects the content of the book, and the book was written by a physicist (me). I'm curious: what didn't you like, specifically?

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      4. Dinesh Dharme‏ @scadza Jun 3
        Replying to @FreelanceAstro @GerardHarbison @sapinker

        Thanks for writing the book!! I saw your Google talk the other day. I enjoyed it.

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      5. Adam Becker‏ @FreelanceAstro Jun 3
        Replying to @scadza @GerardHarbison @sapinker

        Glad you enjoyed it!

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      1. Benoit Cambron‏ @benoit_cambron Jun 3
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        "I think I can safely say that nobody understands quantum mechanics." –Richard Feynman (1918-1988)

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      1. ed win‏ @e_dwin1 Jun 3
        Replying to @sapinker

        "The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth." - Niels Bohr. Anyone who spurs that kind of invitation into his theoretical framework is contender for least gullible.

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      1. P-Brane‏ @BraneRunner Jun 3
        Replying to @sapinker

        How much do you know about quantum mechanics, professor?

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      2. TakingHayekSeriously‏ @FriedrichHayek Jun 3
        Replying to @sapinker

        No one can make sense of the Kripke/Putnam direct reference revolution, it's another failed attempt at the God's Eye View approach to language, Howard Wettstein tries to make sense of it in *The Magic Prism* and point to Wittgenstein as a lens for understanding the pathology.

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      3. TakingHayekSeriously‏ @FriedrichHayek Jun 3
        Replying to @FriedrichHayek @sapinker

        The Kripke/Putnam tribe have produced all sorts of incompatible attempts to make sense of the direct reference doctrine, which generates endless puzzles professors use to build their resume, filling the journals with epicycles upon epicycles, going no where.

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      4. TakingHayekSeriously‏ @FriedrichHayek Jun 3
        Replying to @FriedrichHayek @sapinker

        The Kripke/Putnam folks insist that "water" is H2O, evidently because they have never heard of 2H2O, D2O ie heavy water. Language, explanation, and science simply do not work work as the direct reference dogma assumes that it must.

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      5. TakingHayekSeriously‏ @FriedrichHayek Jun 3
        Replying to @FriedrichHayek @sapinker

        The direct reference people can spend 3 decades in seminar trying to make sense of talk of "arthritis" and never come to an agreement or make any progress -- this program is not a healthy or viable rival to anything.

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      1. Paul Cassidy‏ @paulhcassidy53 Jun 3
        Replying to @sapinker

        Pomo relativists have no way to set a limit on their denial of truth. Thus, we can demand of them, "Now if in about a minute you acquire the idea that I have just punched you in the nose, do you promise to admit that it may not have happened?"

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      1. science & reason‏ @nefulton Jun 3
        Replying to @sapinker

        Fantastic overview. Thx for that!

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      1. Ana i‏ @i_annai Jun 3
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        😳

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      1. A wandering philosopher‏ @AnscombeZJ Jun 3
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        One might call the rebuttal of Kuhn... a paradigm shift!

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      2. Chris Reynolds‏ @Crey1959 Jun 3
        Replying to @sapinker

        @FreelanceAstro will like this.

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      1. Wrath0fKhan‏ @TweetingJihad Jun 5
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        Highly unlikely. Seriously...

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