I would like a nice list of now-regarded-as-fictitious scientific/material concepts, but having google-fu trouble. Ether, phlogiston, elan vital, the 4 humors, vis viva... is there a name for these? Something like superseded science abstractions?
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Made me think of this: lesswrong.com/posts/6i3zToom
The idea of Kuhn-loss is interesting too, things that explained experimental results in the old paradigm that aren't explained by the new paradigm.
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