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From: myers@tybalt.caltech.edu (Bob Myers)
Newsgroups: sci.philosophy.tech
Subject: Re: Truth of theories (was: Re: Simplicity and truth)
Message-ID: <3807@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu>
Date: Fri, 28-Aug-87 12:56:39 EDT
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Posted: Fri Aug 28 12:56:39 1987
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Organization: California Institute of Technology
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Keywords: truth Ockham's razor
Summary: Continental Drift/Plate Tectonics

In article <1191@mind.UUCP> greg@mind.UUCP (Greg Nowak) writes:
>In article <3800@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu> myers@tybalt.caltech.edu.UUCP (Bob Myers) writes:
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>>Interesting. I don't agree. Firstly, I think a theory is more than "a"
>>statement. Continental Drift is not a theory, but Plate Tectonics is.
>
>Continental Drift, as articulated by Wegener, was more than "a"
>statement. I have to call you on this one, Bob -- can you explain why
>CD isn't (or do you mean "wasn't") a theory, but PT is? (No fair
>saying CD was 'wrong' ... ;-)

You are correct, and I didn't say what I meant. By continental drift
above, I meant just the idea that the continents move and once fitted
together across the Atlantic. I used it as an example due to a previous
when I was replying to Biep.

Is that clear now?

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