opaqueice;373808 Wrote: > You can't prove anything ever (except in pure math). "All" you can do > is gather evidence about things, and use that to construct a theory > about the world. You can gather evidence about one individual, and > become very confident that they cannot hear the difference. > > But you can also gather evidence about human perception, and become > very confident that -no one- can hear the difference.
I partially disagree (possibly out of context): Theories are not built by accumulation of evidence - this is an inductive fallacy. They are built via imagination and then tested against evidence. Theories are formalised "explanations" - of course there are better explanations than others (more concise, more general etc etc.) Of course, this does not mean that observation of the outside world is what our triggers our desire to provide explanations for the repeated observation of empirical facts. So if you will observation -> curiosity -> attempt at generalization -> theoretical construct -> testing (in an attempt to falsify) -> addition of adhoc hypotheses to explain theory's inability to explain etc etc etc G -- gbruzzo http://www.last.fm/user/JackieBr/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ gbruzzo's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3633 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=56712 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
