[ExI] The "Unreasonable" Effectiveness of Mathematics in theNatural Sciences

[Stefano Vaj]

On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 11:06 PM, Jef Allbright <jef at jefallbright.net> wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 1:50 PM, Stefano Vaj <stefano.vaj at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> ... I simply assume that the
>> "heliocentric" view is simply a much simpler, more elegant and more
>> Occam-compliant way to describe our portion of the universe.
>
> Isn't the "more Occam-compliant way", simpler and more elegant, the
> now common scientific view that there is /no/ such privileged position
> or portion of the universe?

Sure. Let me rephrase: the helicentric model is a simpler and more
effective way to describe the working of the solar system than a
geocentric one.

Stefano Vaj