Perhaps if you think of it as inventing the concept, as opposed to inventing the phenomina.
The same argument could be applied to inventing a hammer. You could argue that hard metal on the end of a piece of wood would make driving slivers of metal into other pieces of wood easy, and it was always going to be so. But you could think of the situation as the invention of the concept of the hammer (initial idea), followed by the implementation of this concept (making it).
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Date: 2006-10-31 03:04 am (UTC)The same argument could be applied to inventing a hammer. You could argue that hard metal on the end of a piece of wood would make driving slivers of metal into other pieces of wood easy, and it was always going to be so. But you could think of the situation as the invention of the concept of the hammer (initial idea), followed by the implementation of this concept (making it).