To Change Something, Build a New Model
You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.
Intellectual Reference Point Restoration
Topic: “Edifice”
🔎 Lexicon containing “Edifice”
Definitions and explanations of key terms used throughout the site.
Edifice
An elaborate conceptual structure.
💬 Quote Library — containing “Edifice”
A Structure Which Has No Relation to Reality
Today’s scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments and they wander off through equation after equation and eventually build a structure which has no relation to reality.
📖 Excerpts Library
We Are Using Philosophical Criteria in Choosing Our Models
"People need to be aware that there is a range of models that could explain the observations," Ellis argues. "For instance, I can construct you a spherically symmetrical universe with Earth at its center, and you cannot disprove it based...
Source: Scientific American
Do You Suppose It Is Beyond Us to Produce a Dual System of Astronomy?
Do you suppose it is beyond us to produce a dual system of astronomy? The stars can be near or distant, according as we need them. Do you suppose our mathematicians are unequal to that? Have you forgotten doublethink?
Source: 1984 by George Orwell
We Think Our Beliefs Are Based on Sound Evidence
Another reason to adopt moderate skepticism concerns the very real danger that we might be deceiving ourselves in our beliefs, even when we think our beliefs are based on sound evidence. One way in which this can happen is well...
Source: The Beatles and Philosophy by David Detmer
Different Theories Add Strength to the Edifice
This architecture of scientific logic has an inherent beauty which emerges from how various arguments fit together, how several measurements interlock with one another, and how different theories are suddenly introduced to add strength to the edifice.
Source: Big Bang by Simon Singh
Nothing More than Reflected Sunlight
Throw in some assumptions, such as moonlight being nothing more than reflected sunlight, and a framework of scientific logic takes shape.
Source: Big Bang by Simon Singh
🎼 Song Excerpts
The Grand Facade So Soon Will Burn
All my instincts, they return and the grand facade, so soon will burn
Source: In Your Eyes by Peter Gabriel
🧵 Narrative Threads containing “Edifice”
Cause Everything Is Never As It Seems…
With a wave of his hand, he had made the Earth a planet and set it spinning.
And I Will Try To Fix You…
Once in a while you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
I Was Just Guessing at Numbers and Figures
Nobody said it was easy. No one ever said it would be so hard. I’m going back to the start.
We Built This City on Rock and Roll
…how different theories are suddenly introduced to add strength to the edifice.