On 10/10/2014 9:48 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote:
But I can argue that some theory cannot be outranked by an experiment. Two possible
examples: the theory that I (you) are conscious here and now (may be hallucinated, just
conscious). The other example: elementary arithmetic. It has not changed since the
Babylonians, I think, more than eight millennia ago.
The theory, that is the idea we suggest we can agree on is:
0 ≠ s(x)
s(x) = s(y) -> x = y
x+0 = x
x+s(y) = s(x+y)
x*0=0
x*s(y)=(x*y)+x
I am sure you agree that this cannot be experimentally falsified. Of course we can find
many case in which it might be misapplied
Of course that's what all theologians say about their theology. :-)
Brent
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