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2. Do we have _any_ justification for being so arrogant as to insist that
we are so absolutely in the possession of Truth that we can take the
responsibility of dictating language and "stamping" what we do not like
out? The history of physics certainly does not justify such a position.
3. Do we have _any_ evidence that the insistence on using particular words
has any significant effect on the thinking of any significant number of our
students concerning the nature of the phenomena? This has been advocated
and practiced many times before, but one could argue that what we
accomplish is turning people off to us and our profession more than
instilling in them any of our 'Truth.'
4. 'We' seem to be talking as if by using the "Right' words, the correct
and 'True' meaning will automatically be available to all who hear them. I
don't know of any evidence that supports this.
Just my $0.02 worth. Just trying to understand why physics teaching is
such a spectacular failure when we try to look for conceptual change as a
result of physics teaching.
;^)
Dewey