Schrödingers Brexit

Jimstewart said:
Is it just me or does anyone else find it baffling that someone who has admitted that they voted for the party that won the last election on the ticket of get brexit done can come on here for the best part of 18 months and start thread after thread moaning about the very they said they would do?
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Its ST's hair shirt ;)
 
Same_as_before said:
If I believed the science before Copernicus would I still be right thinking the sun went around the earth?
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The 'Scientific Method' as we know it didn't exist in the time of Copernicus. Hence there being lots to discover.

If you disagreed with Copernicus directly you would be wrong.

If you'd never heard of him (and for some reason had an opinion on the matter) then your world-view wouldn't have had much effect on anything.
 
Same_as_before said:
If I believed the science before Copernicus would I still be right thinking the sun went around the earth?
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I've been away for a few days, but I think this is a really great point worthy of a lot of consideration, if I understand the underlying point correctly. Even if I didn't, it really is quite an appropriate analogy in many, many ways.

My interpretation of the point S_a_b makes is that science does not know everything and history is one long road of discovery. Prevailing wisdom and theories, once thought to be the truth are displaced when new observations and discoveries don't fit the standard model or prevailing wisdom.

His point, I think, is that when it comes to Brexit, we are at that point where the Ptolemaic model of an earth-centred universe is competing with the heliocentric universe suggested by Copernicus and only time will tell which is correct.

@Same_as_before Is this fair? Am I missing something?
 
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