On 3/8/2013 11:08 PM, Stephen P. King wrote:
Hi,
Is the following a sound claim?
"...scientifically meaningful propositions are questions about the
past, the present, the future, or the eternal laws that:
* might in principle be both false and true
* admit a method, at least in principle, to evaluate their truth
values."
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Is the following a sound claim?
"...examples of propositions that don't belong to science because one of
the disqualifying conditions below holds:
* they're purely mathematical in character so they require no
empirical input at all
* they're statements about fictional objects such as Hamlet that can't
be decided from the only available data, in this case the text of
Hamlet (there's no "real Hamlet" offering "additional data")
* they depend on subjective opinions and preferences"
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Onward!
Stephen
PS, I am quotingSean Carroll <http://preposterousuniverse.com/>
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