Sherlock Holmes on the nonimportance of theories
R. Ford Denison: In A Study in Scarlet, [Holmes] expresses the opinion that it makes no practical difference whether the sun orbits the earth or vice versa. Yet, in The Musgrave Ritual, it turns out that incorrect theories make incorrect predictions.The ... Read more…
Published: 10:37 07/03/2008,
Source: John Hawks Anthropology Weblog,
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