What Role Did Communication and Collaboration Play in the Demise of Phlogiston Theory?

This crux for my theory is exposed by Jonathan Bennett in his exuberant and generous 'Farewell to the Phlogiston Theory of Conditionals' (Mind, 1988, pp. 509-27) ... ... phlogiston. This kind of glory evoked the properties of circuits and currents in the pre-electrical age. It could suddenly render one speechless, the ... Apr 1, 2025 ... Threadmarks Informational Voting. Statistics (10 threadmarks, 18k ... Phlogiston hasn't ever had one. I will try to be in the threads ... ... informational, or iso- or ... False assumptions doom science to ultimate failure and often to irrelevance: witness phlogiston, caloric, associationistic ... ... informational sources 1 - https://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/education/whatischemistry/landmarks/lavoisier.html#combustion-and-phlogiston. Informational ... Apr 27, 2007 ... ... phlogiston", a rather mysterious substance which was said to explain ... informational process, what other possibility could have been addressed? Information (e.g. Shannon) entropy is not equivalent to thermodynamic (e.g.. Boltzmann-Gibbs) entropy (or to the absolute statistical variety of physical states) ... 'Complete information' or 'all relevant information' just picks out any informational state which will render an individual ... Take 'phlogiston'. Given ... Apr 2, 1994 ... their informational articles, their often disturbing artwork ... enough phlogiston could leak in to flood the entire sphere, or even ... Mar 4, 2022 ... This is an eliminativist position: like phlogiston, entelechy is not a useful ontological/theoretical category and should be scrapped entirely.).