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| Apr 25, 2019 at 16:06 | comment | added | Alex | @mavavilj Yes I'm sure. For GE to be a scientific theory of any value, it was essential that it contained Newtonian mechanics. The reason is simply due to Newton's astonishing success as a scientific theory. If GE had substantially contradicted Newton it would have been binned. | |
| Apr 24, 2019 at 20:22 | comment | added | mavavilj | Hmm, are you sure that your interpretation about Newtonian being a particularization of GE makes time-relative sense? What I mean is that in time Newtonian ideas maybe preceded GE ideas, thus from perspective of "thought formation", Newtonian could be seen to lead to the building of GE. And only later on it's understood that Newtonian is now a special case of the GE, when GE is "completed"? But this observation might not have been done prior to forming GE based on Newtonian ideas. This would then be an example of "scientific revolution", where "a new idea revolutionalizes the earlier ones". | |
| Mar 25, 2019 at 19:29 | comment | added | katipra | I completely missed the "all other things being equal" part. A good reminder | |
| Mar 25, 2019 at 14:28 | history | answered | Alex | CC BY-SA 4.0 |