I wonder if you think that the Telephone Principle that you mention might be of relevance both as an example and as a possible critique of the methodology you propose in this post. Transformation into a new paradigm might be understood as something like a ‘long distance’ in epistemic terms. Therefore, we would expect principles active in our current paradigm to be more or less arbitrarily conserved over that epistemic distance.
Do you think the ‘distance’ in the Telephone Principle can be equally well put into epistemic terms?
That is an interesting and potentially fruitful analogy. One natural notion of “long distance” would be carrying over into many future paradigms, through many paradigm shifts. The Telephone Principle would then say that any principle will either eventually carry over arbitrarily perfectly through each shift (possibly after adjusting a bit in the first few paradigm shifts), or will eventually be completely lost/abandoned.
I wonder if you think that the Telephone Principle that you mention might be of relevance both as an example and as a possible critique of the methodology you propose in this post. Transformation into a new paradigm might be understood as something like a ‘long distance’ in epistemic terms. Therefore, we would expect principles active in our current paradigm to be more or less arbitrarily conserved over that epistemic distance.
Do you think the ‘distance’ in the Telephone Principle can be equally well put into epistemic terms?
That is an interesting and potentially fruitful analogy. One natural notion of “long distance” would be carrying over into many future paradigms, through many paradigm shifts. The Telephone Principle would then say that any principle will either eventually carry over arbitrarily perfectly through each shift (possibly after adjusting a bit in the first few paradigm shifts), or will eventually be completely lost/abandoned.