Rank yourself on the following dimensions. 1=not at all, 5= very much so
| 1) Contingency: what science says could have been otherwise. We could have had a physics without quarks. Perhaps even electrical engineering without electrons? | |
| 2) Nominalism: does science cut nature at its joints? Or are these arbitrary distinctions? Where to cut river, estuary, ocean? | |
| 3) Explanations of stability: past "truths" get overturned. Lamarck overturned by Darwin; Newton by Einstein. Does not getting overturned happend because the theory is Truth, or is it just because the rival hasn't shown up yet? |