望遠鏡が発明されて人間の視覚という認知能力の一つが強化された それを使って月を見るとでこぼこしていることを認知できる これが現時点の信念に反するからといって望遠鏡で月を見ることを忌避した人がいた
そのような人に僕はなりたくない
信念に反する観測の機会の忌避 観測の忌避 Downloading
Some of his contemporaries refused to even look through the telescope at all, so certain were they of Aristotle's wisdom. "These satellites of Jupiter are invisible to the naked eye and therefore can exercise no influence on the Earth, and therefore would be useless, and therefore do not exist," proclaimed nobleman Francesco Sizzi. Besides, said Sizzi, the appearance of new planets was impossible—since seven was a sacred number: "There are seven windows given to animals in the domicile of the head: two nostrils, two eyes, two ears, and a mouth....From this and many other similarities in Nature, which it were tedious to enumerate, we gather that the number of planets must necessarily be seven."