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Originally Posted by CraigS
You could say this .. but it doesn't hold much value. For example, you could also say that when these things were discovered, an education in the sciences was a rarity available to the privileged few. The relationship between the discovery and training at the time of discovery of these items is a 'non sequitur' argument.
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Yes, I can say this and despite the fact that an education is science was, at one stage, a privilege, the fact that quite a few inventions have come from people with no formal training in science is as true today as it was back then.
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Originally Posted by CraigS
.. the counter argument to the value scientific theory adds to the invention. We live in a structured, ordered society. If you don't play the game by its rules, you don't get anywhere, nor can you garner the recognition/rewards for its discovery.
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Yes it is the counter argument, but that hardly invalidates the theory, not does it invalidate the work of scientists. All it means is that sometimes the truly revolutionary inventions don't come from formally trained scientists simply because they're taught to think in certain ways. They have the scientific method to guide them and their knowledge in their specific field to inform them. That can be both a help and an hindrance at the same time.
Being in a structured and ordered society has nothing to do with it. In his case, being in a society that would ripoff an inventor in order for the elite within it to profit from the inventor's ideas, is. Despite his seeming selfishness in wanting "too much" for what he came up with, he has every right to want what he did. After all, it was his idea in the first place. Plus, why should this big corporations and governmental organisation unfairly profit from something they had no idea about in the first place. wanting to tie things up in non disclosure agreements and such, especially where the government is concerned, usually means they're up to no good. Ward wants everyone to benefit from this, not just a few.