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You seem to be agreeing with me in a disagreeable tone. Instrumentalism [1] is precisely what I am rooting for. That's exactly what I said in my OP: "All scientific models are scal…

No different to "round-earthers" using technology which uses "flat earth" as a simplifying assumption in the design (hello! Google Maps). Neither party seems to want to acknowledge…

I used it yes. I didn't design it. In all the times I've used a GPS - the shape of the Earth mattered not one bit to me.

Given a finite data set, an infinite number of functions/curves can explain it. This is curve-fitting 101 stuff. All explanatory models are either an over-fit or an under-fit to th…

So can I tell you "shut up and consult some geodesic models" when you spread the gospel that Earth is round? Because strictly and Mathematically speaking, Earth is NOT round. It's …

Furthermore you are arguing my point. Relativism. >some things are more correct than others. On the relative scale of "very incorrect" to "very correct" descriptions of Earth's sha…

It doesn't matter what we SAY about the shape of the Earth though, does it? It only matters how we use/apply those theories in practice. Practical errors have consequences. Theoret…

The shape of the Earth is just a model [1] - an approximation. All models have margins of error. All models are wrong, some are useful [2]. The map is not the territory [3]. All sc…