Re: The Behaviorist Mantra

[Rolf Marvin Bøe Lindgren]
 
| Ernest Mach (and Machian positivism) was also one of Skinner's
| inspirations.  Mach's method of research can be boiled down to this:
| assume that what you have observed is correct and see how far you can
| get with it.  Einstein was inspired by Mach when he assumed, contrary
| to theory, that the speed of light was not relative, applied Maxwell's
| equations, and general relativity came out in the other end.  Thus,
| Einstein dismissed theory in this particular instance, and indeed,
| theory got in the way of progress in science.
 
[Neil W Rickert]

| That's a bad description.  What Einstein gave us is theory.  There is
| something wrong with saying that he dismissed theory.
| 
| I think you mean that he dismissed the conventionally accepted
| theory, and proposed a replacement.
 
this is exactly what I mean and indeed what I believe that I have
written. 

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Rolf Lindgren                                            http://www.roffe.com/
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