As for impossible, well, it may be only my subjective opinion, but I heard a concerto by Beethoven just yesterday and thought it was a stellar composition.
"George L. Murphygmurphy@raex.com" <gmurphy@raex.com> wrote:
2) Scientists may make lousy philosophers but they generally don't compare in badness with philosophers telling scientists how to do science. Comte & the supposed impossibility of knowing stellar compositions is a prime example. If you want to know how science works, look at what scientists - both experimental & theoretical - do. Philosophers of science come in afterwards, after scientific successes & failures have occurred, & clean things up & make them look more respectable for their fellow philosophers. & if what's worked isn't in accord with current ideas about the philosophy of science, so much the worse for those ideas.
George L. Murphy
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