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To: gore3000
You deny heliocentrism?

Oh, of course not. I defined my terms very carefully. I said that it's not a "scientific fact," which I defined in turn as being a "well confirmed observation." We do not directly observe heliocentrism, we infer it from a multitude of individual facts. Or, rather, more formally, as Popper would put it, we hypothesise heliocentrism and find that it passes the test of the facts.

2,432 posted on 08/10/2003 9:53:19 PM PDT by Stultis
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To: Stultis
Oh, of course not. I defined my terms very carefully.

Okay, then as far as you are concerned that the Earth goes round the sun is proven. Definitions and semantics are not interesting to me.

2,469 posted on 08/11/2003 7:22:27 PM PDT by gore3000 (Intelligent people do not believe in evolution.)
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