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Originally posted by Xtraeme
This way of "edging towards" true knowledge is incremental and provides no indication of progress, no "OK, we've got it now, stop here".
So Skepticism & Believerism are both likely to compete in guiding science for some time to come.
Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.
All other things being equal the simplest explanation is probably the most likely.
Originally posted by Xtraeme
You can't misidentify something you don't know and that nobody else knows either. Well, you can be wrong about what you think it is, but that's a wrong hypothesis. However a hypothesis can become an identification. So really it's more a matter of where the thing is in the process. So then I can have a "bad hypothesis" (or an invalid hypothesis) which is almost the same as a misidentification. This is interesting. It means on the "human knowledge chart" that "misidentification" and "invalid hypothesis" are very similar.
If the semi-diameter of a sphere of the same density as the Sun were to exceed that of the Sun in the proportion of 500 to 1, a body falling from an infinite height towards it would have acquired at its surface greater velocity than that of light, and consequently supposing light to be attracted by the same force in proportion to its vis inertiae, with other bodies, all light emitted from such a body would be made to return towards it by its own proper gravity.