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Why Is the Cosmos Comprehensible? | Melissa Cain Travis

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The Keplerian Method: A Potential Fruitful Approach to Science

Kepler was an empiricist. That's just amazing to me. I don't think most people think about that when they learn about science. And Kepler, as you point out many times, had a deep sense of duty to this empirical plank of modern science. So if we take Kepler's approach to nature in respect to expecting deep rationality and expecting that the human mind has been designed in such a way to be able to tap into that rationality then it can unlock secret after secret of nature. We're going to be fruitful in the ways that Kepler was essentially if that makes sense.

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