Wittgenstein and paradigms

October 12, 2009 at 12:02 pm

Ludwig Wittgenstein: “Tell me, why do people always say that it was natural for men to assume that the sun went around the earth rather than the earth was rotating?”

Friend: “Well, obviously, because it just looks as if the sun is going around the earth.”

Wittgenstein: “Well, what would it look like if it had looked as if the earth were rotating?”

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