I’m not sure what you’re getting at. If I say “It’s pretty damned certain that the Earth is round”, and someone objected because I didn’t specify what I meant by round, I’d think they were wasting everyones time trying to sound smart.
Atomic theory is a standard phrase. The theory was vigorously debated in the 19th century, when it was not clear that the structure of matter wasn’t, for example, continuous and homogeneous. Claiming it’s not precise enough to call certain...I don’t know, if you were making a subtler point it was lost on me.
(I’m just responding to this comment—I haven’t read the post)
I’m not sure what you’re getting at. If I say “It’s pretty damned certain that the Earth is round”, and someone objected because I didn’t specify what I meant by round, I’d think they were wasting everyones time trying to sound smart.
Atomic theory is a standard phrase. The theory was vigorously debated in the 19th century, when it was not clear that the structure of matter wasn’t, for example, continuous and homogeneous. Claiming it’s not precise enough to call certain...I don’t know, if you were making a subtler point it was lost on me.
(I’m just responding to this comment—I haven’t read the post)