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What your teachers failed to do is teach logic and basic reasoning. It is not that I think you are wrong or stupid. People a great deal smarter than myself have
by strangattractor 3y ago
What your teachers failed to do is teach logic and basic reasoning. It is not that I think you are wrong or stupid. People a great deal smarter than myself have thought about this issue since ancient Greece.
A "truth" is a quality of something. The statement "The phone is on the kitchen table." Is either True or False. Saying that the Earth is 92 million miles from the Sun is true. The that we all agree on how long a mile is a convention. Similarly the hemisphere of a tilted Earth starts to warm at a certain part of the Earth's orbit each year is True - that we (English speakers) call it Spring is a convention.
A better example for your argument might be that Newton's equations of motion is highly accurate at velocities much slower that the speed of light. Einstein's Relativity is a much better fit at the high velocities. But again if you use Einstein's equation at low velocities they look a lot like Newton - you see that Newton's results still hold so they are still considered true.
If you model the Earth at the center of the solar system you can derive a complicated system that fits that model but it starts to fall apart in a lot of other places which makes it not true and or useful. Stuff like why the we get seasons would be difficult to explain indeed (the Sun changes temperature cyclicly during the year I guess). That is why Newton's Equation are considered such an achievement - they solve use cases that where never considered when they were created. Some things are a lot more right than others.
The fact that you think about such things is great - most people don't bother.