--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > --- sparaig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, anonymousff > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > > But Einstein's ideas evolved out of the very > > science that later > > > embraced them and much later found evidence for > > them. > > > > > > The SV mythology does not arise from such an > > evolution. Scientists > > > do not necessarily want to take any old pie in the > > sky explanation > > > for how things work and test it rigorously. > > > > "Deva" is merely a place-holder word. You can > > substitute any set of > > scientific terms you want. Science, the methodology, > > doesn't "care" > > about terminology, only about results. > > No, you are completely wrong here. The explanatory > concepts must make sense by having quantifiable > properties (i.e., open to measurement) and not be > simple metaphors or "placeholders". Placeholders for > what, reality?
Parts of the theory must be open to falsifiability of some kind, yes... Placeholder is a perfectly accurate term to use here, of course. Elsewise, why name something a "quark" instead of "breakfast cereal" or "nonsense poem?" [the latter being the source of the term 'quark' and the former being named in honor of the arbitrarily named elementary particle] ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
