Dreaded_Anomaly comments on Philosophy: A Diseased Discipline - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Dreaded_Anomaly 30 March 2011 02:52:56AM 2 points [-]

I'm not sure if "overturning" general relativity is the appropriate description. We may well find a broader theory which contains general relativity as a limiting case, just as general relativity has special relativity and Newtonian mechanics as limiting cases. With the plethora of experimental verifications of general relativity, however, I wouldn't expect to see it completely discarded in the way that, e.g., phlogiston theory was.