Question
This person infers the existence of birds from “shadow-figures” in an example about a cubical world from Hans Reichenbach’s Experience and Prediction. This person’s ideas represent “the Pygmalion in the mind of man” according to the first chapter of Michael Polanyi’s Personal Knowledge. This is the earlier of two people whose theories contradict “natural interpretations” such as the Aristotelian “tower argument” according to (*) Paul Feyerabend’s Against Method. In Critique of Pure Reason, Immanuel Kant analogized this person’s work to his own attempt to view objects as conforming to intuition rather than vice-versa. A 1543 work by this person ushered in the first and most discussed paradigm shift in Thomas Kuhn’s The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. For 10 points, what astronomer’s On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres sets out his heliocentric theory? ■END■
Buzzes
Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
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Kevin Wang | Triple Round Robin Lovers | Labour's Lost Lovers | 114 | 10 |