On Friday, March 8, 2013 11:11:38 PM UTC-5, Stephen Paul King wrote: > > 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." > > -- > > > 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" > > -- > > They sound ok to me. Subjective opinions should not be included when the topic of consideration is subjectivity itself, but they should be understood as expressions of subjective phenomena.
Craig > Onward! > > Stephen > > PS, I am quoting Sean Carroll <http://preposterousuniverse.com/> > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
