Re: [Phys-l] Galileo was wrong

[Joseph Bellina <inquirybellina@comcast.net>]

I don't think I would describe Popper as wanting us to aspire to  
failure...but it certainly is valuable when we do.  It also points  
out that this business we are in is by no means linear and  
progressive as some would like to think it is.

Yes it was glorious, and pregnant.

joe

Joseph J. Bellina, Jr. Ph.D.
Emeritus Professor of Physics
Co-Director
Northern Indiana Science, Mathematics, and Engineering Collaborative
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On Sep 23, 2010, at 8:50 AM, Dr. Keith S. Taber wrote:

> At 07:02 -0400 23/9/10, Joseph Bellina wrote:
> > In that sense Copernicus was a mystically driven reactionary failure.
>
> But what a glorious failure.
>
> And, post-positivism, isn't that what we are to aspire to? (cf.  
> Popper)
>
> Keith
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