--- In [email protected], Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > --- authfriend <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > --- In [email protected], Peter > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > > Thanks for the explanation. But of course as soon > > as > > > we enter the domain of "devas" we've got problems > > > Houston within a scientific paradigm. Not that I'm > > > dismissing such an explanation, just that it hangs > > in > > > the air as a myth until it can be quantified. And > > we > > > are very far from that right now! > > > > But that's exactly what this myth does: it provides > > a basis for quantification. From it we can > > construct > > testable hypotheses, e.g., people who live in homes > > with south-facing entrances will die at younger ages > > than those in homes with entrances facing in other > > directions. > > I think two things are confounded here. There are the > empirical findings that correlate south facing > entranced homes with greater diseases, deaths, etc., > compared to north facing entranced homes. These are > empirical facts if the research is done right. Then > there are the explanatory concepts that either link > the empirical findings back into known science or a > new explanatory construct is created (such as in the > 1% stuff) because it is the best and only way to > explain the findings.
I'm not sure how you think I "confounded" these two. You said it was a myth until it could be "quantified"; I was pointing out that the myth itself was a means of quantification in that it could be used to generate testable hypotheses; studies to test the hypotheses would then generate data, empirical facts. You now appear to be referring to a later stage of the process, one I wasn't addressing at all. ------------------------ 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/
