Sunday, January 31, 2016

Philosophy Wire: Exoplanets. Other systems. Illustrations. Unicorns.


Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2016-01-31]: “Glimpse of baby planet shows what to expect when a star is expecting”, says a scientific article. [1] The article contain an “illustration” of a planetary system forming around a star. Illustrations… What a great way of showing things. What a great way of passing over assumptions as reality… But isn’t that what the world actually is? It isn’t that unicorns did not exist. It is that we stopped drawing them…

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