Only marginally. My feeling is that this apparent incommensurability is due to people not realizing that their disagreements are due to some deeply buried implicit assumptions and the lack of desire to find these assumptions and discuss them.
That’s the standard physical realist response to Kuhn and Feyerabend. I find it confusing to hear it from you, because you certainly are not a standard physical realist.
In short, I think you are being a little too a la carte with your selection from various parts of philosophy of science.
Right, that’s fair, but it’s not really apparent from your reply which is A and which is ~A. I understand that physical realists say the same things as shminux, who professes not to be a physical realist—but then, I bet physical realists say that water is wet, too...
I don’t know that shminux has inadvertently endorsed A and ~A. I’m suspicious that this has occurred because he resists the standard physical realist definition of territory / reality, but responds to a quasi-anti-realist position with an physical realist answer that I suspect depends on the rejected definition of reality.
If I knew precisely where the contradiction was, I’d point it out explicitly. But I don’t, so I can’t.
That’s the standard physical realist response to Kuhn and Feyerabend. I find it confusing to hear it from you, because you certainly are not a standard physical realist.
In short, I think you are being a little too a la carte with your selection from various parts of philosophy of science.
Is there something wrong with doing that ? As long as the end result is internally consistent, I don’t see the problem.
Sure, my criticism has an implied “And I’m concerned you’ve managed to endorse A and ~A by accident.”
Right, that’s fair, but it’s not really apparent from your reply which is A and which is ~A. I understand that physical realists say the same things as shminux, who professes not to be a physical realist—but then, I bet physical realists say that water is wet, too...
I don’t know that shminux has inadvertently endorsed A and ~A. I’m suspicious that this has occurred because he resists the standard physical realist definition of territory / reality, but responds to a quasi-anti-realist position with an physical realist answer that I suspect depends on the rejected definition of reality.
If I knew precisely where the contradiction was, I’d point it out explicitly. But I don’t, so I can’t.
Yeah, fair enough, I don’t think I understand his position myself at this point…