Re: Hypotheses

2012-11-24 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 24 Nov 2012, at 11:15, Roger Clough wrote: Hi Bruno Marchal Every great discovery of man (even in logic and mathematics) started as a possibility (an insight, conjecture, an intuition, a hypothesis ) in the mind of a man. The transistor, the basis of the computer, started as a possibi

RE: Hypotheses

2005-06-06 Thread Brent Meeker
>-Original Message- >From: Stathis Papaioannou [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Monday, June 06, 2005 5:51 AM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; everything-list@eskimo.com >Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: RE: Hypotheses > > >A couple of hours ago, I was speaking to a you

Re: Hypotheses

2005-06-05 Thread Bruno Marchal
Le 06-juin-05, à 07:14, rmiller a écrit : Slip-ups aside, I would like to see a rigorous application of the powerful tools of philosophy, logic and mathematics applied to the study areas of social science, i.e. the real world. Physicists are great at telling us why the rings of Saturn have

RE: Hypotheses

2005-06-05 Thread rmiller
At 12:50 AM 6/6/2005, you wrote: A couple of hours ago, I was speaking to a young man who informed me that he can predict the future: he has visions or dreams, and they turn out to be true. I asked him for an example of this ability. He thought for a moment, explaining that there were really fa

RE: Hypotheses

2005-06-05 Thread rmiller
At 12:50 AM 6/6/2005, you wrote: A couple of hours ago, I was speaking to a young man who informed me that he can predict the future: he has visions or dreams, and they turn out to be true. I asked him for an example of this ability. He thought for a moment, explaining that there were reall

RE: Hypotheses

2005-06-05 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
psychic", my patient said (for that is what he was), "I don't know what will!" My question to the list: should I have stopped this man's antipsychotic medication? --Stathis Papaioannou From: rmiller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: everything-list@eskimo.com CC: "Giu

Hypotheses

2005-06-05 Thread rmiller
Re the hypotheses---Social scientists, astronomers and CSI agents are the only ones I'm aware of who routinely evaluate events after the fact. The best, IMHO, such as the historian Toynbee, fit facts to a model. At it's worst, the model becomes the event and before long we&