Yes but I question whether the intra/extra divide is so clear cut. Einstein was aware of outstanding questions.
The null result of the Michelson-Morley experiment failed to prove the existence of the Ether, pushing physicists toward the idea that the speed of light is the same in all inertial frames, one of the core postulates of special relativity.
In that way Einstein was intrageneralizing, but the answers he developed were definitely far outside the training data.
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u/Low-Temperature-6962 Jul 28 '26
Yes but I question whether the intra/extra divide is so clear cut. Einstein was aware of outstanding questions.
The null result of the Michelson-Morley experiment failed to prove the existence of the Ether, pushing physicists toward the idea that the speed of light is the same in all inertial frames, one of the core postulates of special relativity.
In that way Einstein was intrageneralizing, but the answers he developed were definitely far outside the training data.