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Only that it's nonsensical to do otherwise, which amounts to the same thing.Sunil said:Holding on to the past at all costs is not what I have proposed.
From a logical point of view that gives an unncessary and inexplicable preference for the previous idea. I.e. if we have idea A and idea B, then we hold to idea A because it came first historically? If you were given the same two ideas, but were told that idea B originated before idea A, would you automatically prefer idea B because it came first?Sunil said:To give up successful classical scientific principles just because some interpretations of QT reject them remains nonsensical as long as there are interpretations which are compatible with those principles.
I would tend to judge ideas A and B on their respective merits - not on which idea was thought of first.