Comments on: Science Education and Liberal Education https://www.isegoria.net/2015/04/science-education-and-liberal-education/ From the ancient Greek for equality in freedom of speech; an eclectic mix of thoughts, large and small Sat, 18 Apr 2026 23:29:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 By: Alrenous https://www.isegoria.net/2015/04/science-education-and-liberal-education/comment-page-1/#comment-2245820 Alrenous Wed, 15 Apr 2015 21:33:07 +0000 http://www.isegoria.net/?p=37823#comment-2245820 The kind of assertions that would make physics post-modern aren’t epistemically different than the kind of assertions that make university history post-modern, so it puzzles me that not only does the distinction exist, but it follows a clear gradient.

In economics, they say X will happen, and it does not. Explaining it away works. Post-modern physics would be identical; it would say an atom smasher should make output X, when in fact you get Y. However, in this case explaining it away does not work.

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