tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5362765413636598039.post5601857784299704538..comments2024-03-26T01:31:27.219-07:00Comments on Popular Science Books: The Theory of Elementary Waves – Lewis E. Little ***Brian Clegghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12723555872580740773noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5362765413636598039.post-47031711772434956582019-07-14T09:39:35.268-07:002019-07-14T09:39:35.268-07:00I haven't read all of Little's book, but I...I haven't read all of Little's book, but I never get the impression he is claiming that if something is "weird it’s impossible." From that which I've read so far, that language of his has had to do with the validity of the law of non-contradiction and the correlativity of substance and attribute wherever I saw it in what I read. The denial of the applicability of these axioms of logic is no small matter. And science theories are tentative. <br /><br />Hence, Little, Bell, Einstein, etal are (were) warranted in holding out hope that there is an ultimately classically-rational (i.e., as described in logic texts for decades) explanation for all phenomena. It is hard to even define what "explanation" means, consistent with what intuitively mean by causality, apart from such logic.Jeffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16852362499722076519noreply@blogger.com