Post #354

Aiming to cut a philosophical midpoint, and borrowing from Poincaré’s structuralism, Worrall shifts the focus of no miracles argument from ontological continuity to structural continuity, arguing that we should be committed to the structure that is continuous between successive and successful scientific theories. For example, we should be epistemically committed to the structure of light, but not its nature, as expressed by the shared structure between Fresnel and Maxwell’s equations. This epistemic structural realist position holds that we can explain the success of scientific theories in a non-miraculous manner, and so avoids the force of pessimistic meta-induction argument. That is, the success of science is explained, not by reference to objects, but by reference to our epistemic grasp of the continuity of the structure of successful and successive scientific theories, all the while accepting the possibility of ontological discontinuity between successive theories. Thus, the slogan: all we know is structure. Gang Starr, Inspectah Deck - Above the Clouds Above the crowds, above the clouds where the sounds are original Infinite skills create miracles Warrior spiritual, above the clouds Reigning down, holdin it down [...] I Self Lord And Master, shall bring disaster to evil factors Demonic chapters, shall be captured by Kings Through the storms of days after Unto the Earth from the Sun through triple darkness to blast ya With a force that can't be compared To any firepower, for it's mindpower shared The doors - The Ghost song We have assembled inside This ancient and insane theater To propagate our lust for life And flee the swarming wisdom of the streets The barns have stormed The windows kept And only one of all the rest To dance and save us From the divine mockery of words, Music inflames temperament Jozef van Wissem - The Mystery of Heaven