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    Galileo and an Aristotelian observer would not have collected the same data from pendulum experiments

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    • 1.Galileo treated pendulum swings as constrained circular motions, making radius, angular displacement, and time per swing salient quantities
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    • 2.An Aristotelian treats the stone as falling under constraint toward the center of the earth, making those Galilean quantities of no interest
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    • 3.Observers collect data on quantities that are salient given their theoretical framework
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    • 1.Basic perceptual data like swing duration and arc width are accessible to any observer regardless of theoretical commitments, as Feyerabend himself acknowledged in Against Method.
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    • 2.The Aristotelian and Galilean frameworks share enough common observational vocabulary—time, distance, repetition—that raw measurements would converge even if interpretations diverged.
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    • 3.Theory-ladenness of observation threatens the claim only if it collapses the distinction between data collection and data interpretation, a conflation Fodor's modularity thesis argues against.
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    • 1.Hanson's inference from 'seeing as' to 'collecting different data' commits a use-mention error: two observers can record identical measurements while conceptualizing them under different descriptions.
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    • 2.Duhem's instrumentalist tradition holds that experimental data are theory-neutral pointer readings or clock intervals, with theoretical significance attached only post-hoc during interpretation.
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    and ignore radius, angular displacement, and time per swing (ibid., 124). These last were salient to Galileo because he treated pendulum swings as constrained circular motions. The Galilean quantities would be of no interest to an Aristotelian who treats the stone as falling under constraint toward the center of the earth (ibid., 123). Thus Galileo and the Aristotelian would not have collected the same data. (Absent records of Aristotelian pendulum experiments we can think of this as a thought e
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