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    It is not the case that Galileo and an Aristotelian observer would not have collected the same data from pendulum experiments

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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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    • 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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