On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 8:23 PM, Gruss Gott <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> I don't agree with that.  E.g. Quantum mechanics is a theory which predicts 
> how electrons behave, which is basis of how your computer works.
>
> Thus if we agree that your computer as a working system is a fact then then 
> framework used to get that fact must also be a fact.

We agree the sun appears almost every day yet it is not the center of
the universe.

> You can get more fuzzy and say that newtons theory of gravity predicts facts 
> above a certain granularity.  Thus above that level it's a fact.

And what's wrong with condition based rules?

> Take the fuzzy fact concept one step farther: the theory of relativity.
>
> Is gravity a fact?  Then how would you explain superfluidity?  It defies 
> gravity.

I don't know what it is.

> If scientific theories aren't facts then there are no facts.

I'm not saying they can't be facts, just that the label doesn't guarantee it so.

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