The phlogiston theory was tested and disproved because combustion products increase in mass rather than decreasing as the theory predicted.
I thought that just made theorists respond “So phlogiston must be lighter than air”. But you’re right, the article exaggerates the unfalsifiable, fails-to-constrain-expectations, fake-causality aspects of the theory and oversimplifies it a bit.
Ehh, I don’t mind the exaggeration and oversimplification.. If it wasn’t simplified, I probably wouldn’t understand it. :3
The phlogiston theory was tested and disproved because combustion products increase in mass rather than decreasing as the theory predicted.
I thought that just made theorists respond “So phlogiston must be lighter than air”. But you’re right, the article exaggerates the unfalsifiable, fails-to-constrain-expectations, fake-causality aspects of the theory and oversimplifies it a bit.
Ehh, I don’t mind the exaggeration and oversimplification.. If it wasn’t simplified, I probably wouldn’t understand it. :3