Ep 105: David Deutsch’s “The Fabric of Reality” Chapter 4 “Criteria for Reality” Part 1
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The Inquisition Theory Explains Planetary Motions
The inquisition theory explains the apparent stationarity of the earth by saying that it is stationary. The heliocentric theory explains them by in that the planets are seen to move in complicated loops across the sky because they are really moving in simple circles or ellipses in space. So here is the cosmology, the inquisition's cosmology, that can be understood only in terms of a different cosmology which it contradicts but faithfully mimics. All predictions that one makes is perfectly consistent with helio centrism being true.
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