{"id":10823,"date":"2011-03-23T05:51:53","date_gmt":"2011-03-23T05:51:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2011\/03\/23\/richard-feynman-on-how-science-is-like-chess\/"},"modified":"2011-03-23T05:51:53","modified_gmt":"2011-03-23T05:51:53","slug":"richard-feynman-on-how-science-is-like-chess","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2011\/03\/23\/richard-feynman-on-how-science-is-like-chess\/","title":{"rendered":"Richard Feynman on How Science is Like Chess"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=o1dgrvlWML4\" target=\"_self\">An excellent analogy.<\/a>&#0160; (HT: Ron Brinegar) But every analogy limps.&#0160; There is no such thing as a perfect analogy.&#0160; A perfect analogy would be an identity, and&#0160;&#0160;one cannot&#0160;(usefully) compare a thing to itself.&#0160; So, after enjoying Feynman&#39;s fine analogy, you should ask yourself what the points of disanalogy are.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An excellent analogy.&#0160; (HT: Ron Brinegar) But every analogy limps.&#0160; There is no such thing as a perfect analogy.&#0160; A perfect analogy would be an identity, and&#0160;&#0160;one cannot&#0160;(usefully) compare a thing to itself.&#0160; So, after enjoying Feynman&#39;s fine analogy, you should ask yourself what the points of disanalogy are.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[339,169,205],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-analogies","category-chess","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10823\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}