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by tipsysquid 2205 days ago
I find summary message at the end particularly enlightening.

> But if you ask what is electricity?, then all of the answers you'll find will just confuse you, and you'll never stop asking that question.

How do we discover that Mrs. McCave named all her sons Dave? How do we discover without a lifetime of study that electricity is not the right name?

Is it scientific method? Epistemology?