Kuhn's theory suffers from a fatal flaw. It explains the succession from one paradigm to another in sociological or psychological terms, rather than as having primarily to do with the objective merit of the rival explanations. Yet unless one understands science as a quest for explanations, the fact that it does find successive explanations, each objectively better than the last, is inexplicable. (Ch. 13)

As I understand it, the claim is that the less you use Homeopathy, the better it works. Sounds plausible to me.[1]

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Necessary truth is merely the subject-matter of mathematics, not the reward we get for doing mathematics. The object of mathematics is not, and cannot be, math…

If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.

The whole system has been long since swept away, and its records merely remain as illustrations of perverted ingenuity.

While the founding fathers agonized over the question 'particle' or 'wave', de Broglie in 1925 proposed the obvious answer 'particle' and 'wave'. Is it not cle…