On Jun 18, 5:03 pm, Jim Higgins wrote:
Cecil, I challenge you to produce a link to a statement by anyone who
said the above, including the words "The theory was never wrong" or
words inarguably to that effect.

I already did that, Jim, twice now. If theories are "never discarded",
then it logically follows that theories are never wrong. If a theory
or any part of a theory is ever wrong, hindsight tells us that it was
only a hypothesis to start with, not a theory. Thus the ether theory
was not a theory at all. The atomic theory was not a theory at all.
The red shift theory of the expansion of the universe may not be a
theory at all and may have to be demoted to a hypothesis in order to
prove that theories are never wrong.
--
73, Cecil, w5dxp.com

Cecil Moore wrote:
On Jun 18, 5:03 pm, Jim Higgins wrote:
Cecil, I challenge you to produce a link to a statement by anyone who
said the above, including the words "The theory was never wrong" or
words inarguably to that effect.

I already did that, Jim, twice now. If theories are "never discarded",
then it logically follows that theories are never wrong. If a theory
or any part of a theory is ever wrong, hindsight tells us that it was
only a hypothesis to start with, not a theory. Thus the ether theory
was not a theory at all. The atomic theory was not a theory at all.
The red shift theory of the expansion of the universe may not be a
theory at all and may have to be demoted to a hypothesis in order to
prove that theories are never wrong.
--
73, Cecil, w5dxp.com


Cecil,

This is really funny.

You just cannot do it, can you?

You rarely argue directly against someone's quote. You rephrase the
issue "logically" into your own strawman, and then knock it down. A good
debating trick, but not very effective here.

8-)

73,
Gene
W4SZ

Cecil Moore wrote:

... Thus the ether theory
was not a theory at all.
The atomic theory was not a theory at all. ...
73, Cecil, w5dxp.com

Cecil:

Really?

I thought "newtonian luminous ether" simply became "Einsteinian
Gravitational Ether."

Regards,
JS

On Jun 19, 4:58 pm, Jim Higgins wrote:
You have NOT posted the link I asked for.

Since I have quoted the posting three times now, I guess I am not
understanding what you mean by "link". It is pretty easy to understand
assuming the rules of classical logic. A logical assertion (theory) is
either true or false. If any part of it is false, the entire assertion
is false and is therefore logically rejected as false (discarded).
--
73, Cecil, w5dxp.com