not wrong, but unnecessarily complicated for use in describing the phenomena it wants to describe, like the geocentric model.
actually wrong, like the emission theory of vision (the idea that we see by shooting rays from our eyes).
I don’t think it’s that useful to call them both false. Geocentrism is outdated in the same sense that woodblock printing is outdated: highly inefficient at the task it’s meant to do relative to better tools.
There are two types of bad scientific theories:
not wrong, but unnecessarily complicated for use in describing the phenomena it wants to describe, like the geocentric model.
actually wrong, like the emission theory of vision (the idea that we see by shooting rays from our eyes).
I don’t think it’s that useful to call them both false. Geocentrism is outdated in the same sense that woodblock printing is outdated: highly inefficient at the task it’s meant to do relative to better tools.