For Carnap, as for Reichenbach, the choice of framework or coordinating definitions was conventional, a matter of convenience or heuristic fertility, whereas for committed Kuhnian normal scientists the foundational tenets of their paradigm are deep truths about the world, principles not subject to empirical test.
"The sports world seems to think it's an island where everyone who lands on it is playing 'Survivor' and that real-world principles don't or shouldn't apply," he said.
One way of answering this objection head on is to identify principles that, given a distance function on worlds, constrain the distances between worlds and sets of worlds, principles perhaps powerful enough to identify a unique extension.
In a normal world, the principle would be true for markets or weather or statistics.
It is also about holding our President accountable as the world's principle proliferation enforcer".
In a perfect world, this principle would have applied last year with Harry Douglas, but injuries and inadequate chemistry with Ryan have limited him.
Finally, the Enlightenment expanded the historical world, in principle at least, almost to the limits recognized today and it never shrank again.
This was done, apparently, to maintain "the balance of the world," a principle reiterated later in the film, but the episode leaves you panting to know more.
In our three-dimensional world, the principle is the same, but the force lines have to be shared out over the area of a sphere instead.
