HOW KNOWLEDGE IMPROVES —“sometimes what works satisfyingly for a time is subse

HOW KNOWLEDGE IMPROVES

—“sometimes what works satisfyingly for a time is subsequently found replaceable by something that works even better — for example, the discovery that Newtonian mechanics is a special case of relativistic mechanics that holds exactly only in the limit of v approaching zero, but is “good enough”— Frank Lovell

Newtonian mechanics is a special case of relativistic mechanics where v approaches zero.

This does not mean newtonian mechanics are false.

As far as I can tell this tends, more often than not, by far, to be the method by which knowledge evolves. And I very much like Frank’s terminology here since it avoids the fallacy of treating knowledge (actions that produce desired outcomes) and logic (internally true or false) as bound by the same criteria. THEY ARE NOT.