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| Feb 22, 2018 at 14:03 | comment | added | Frank Hubeny | +1 Your description of Mach agrees with Malin's. Sense experience is the only reality and theory is an economical way to describe it. Malin is quoting Heisenberg's Physics and Beyond, p 63. I agree that theories become real science based on social mood of scientific communities. The source of theories is still mysterious. I think Malin brings in Plotinus as a way to explain it which is why I'm rereading the book. This would put the source of theories in an atemporal dimension. I wonder if there are alternatives to that. | |
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| Feb 22, 2018 at 6:01 | history | answered | Alex Sotka | CC BY-SA 3.0 |