When we have a scientific revolution, it's not just that we improve the old theory. We very often throw away the old theory and replace it with something completely different. The phenomenon of the earth going around the sun is independent of your idea of the underlying ology. And so i don't want to claim that my version of it is the consensus version of it, not that i'm trying to be contrary and but that my understanding might not quite be there yet. That'd be epistemic structural realism. Antic structural realismis, i think, if i understand it. But, you haven't reached conclusions yet about these things. Once again, i keep saying this over and over
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