Verification here is difficult as one can always use a “you didn’t do it right ” type of argument. I think an analogous claim would be “it would be totally dark if there were no sun” which does not hold true as there would still be starlight if the local system didn’t have fusion reactions.
Also heat in the sense of caloric theory doesn’t really exist and there is nothing mystical about that but the “common notion” of heat as ontological basic doesn’t hold. Yes your hand gets a tingly feeling and that still happens. I would also think that if I said that Ra exists even if it added to the same picture as the sun the differences would be appriciable enough that it is not mere technical details. Some very naive conceptions of sun might say that sun raises into the sky from east and sets to the west. That is pointing to a real goins on but there are grounds to say that the sun doesn’t move (sun moves earth still vs earth moves sun still). So from a certain point of view it is true that the sun never sets despite there being sunsets.
I think there is also not much claims of supranormal things, so adding up to normality doesn’t do much anything. Nobody is claiming that seeing doesn’t happen even if it is disputed whether there is a self that sees. A fusion reaction thoery of sun says that nuclear weapons should be possible while a earth stationary sun mobile theory might not agree, but that is a disagreement in a place that is less observed outside of “normality”.
Verification here is difficult as one can always use a “you didn’t do it right ” type of argument. I think an analogous claim would be “it would be totally dark if there were no sun” which does not hold true as there would still be starlight if the local system didn’t have fusion reactions.
Also heat in the sense of caloric theory doesn’t really exist and there is nothing mystical about that but the “common notion” of heat as ontological basic doesn’t hold. Yes your hand gets a tingly feeling and that still happens. I would also think that if I said that Ra exists even if it added to the same picture as the sun the differences would be appriciable enough that it is not mere technical details. Some very naive conceptions of sun might say that sun raises into the sky from east and sets to the west. That is pointing to a real goins on but there are grounds to say that the sun doesn’t move (sun moves earth still vs earth moves sun still). So from a certain point of view it is true that the sun never sets despite there being sunsets.
I think there is also not much claims of supranormal things, so adding up to normality doesn’t do much anything. Nobody is claiming that seeing doesn’t happen even if it is disputed whether there is a self that sees. A fusion reaction thoery of sun says that nuclear weapons should be possible while a earth stationary sun mobile theory might not agree, but that is a disagreement in a place that is less observed outside of “normality”.