“All observational claims made about the object are made in some perspective or other. Before the seventeenth century, the Milky Way, as part of a commonsense perspective on the world, was perceived using human eyes simply as a broad band of light extending across the night sky. From the perspective…”Tagged: Milky Way, Scientific Perspectivism, Seeing Seeing, Against Objectivity, Perspectivism
“For a perspectival realist, the strongest claims a scientist can legitimately make are of a qualified, conditional form: 'According to this highly confirmed theory (or reliable instrument), the world seems to be roughly such and such.' There is no way legitimately to take the further objectivist…”Tagged: Epistemology, Perspectivism, Science, Importance of Multiple Database Entries