Well since we're talking measurement and theory in the natural sciences, one is operating on nature and one does have a model of nature which is formal in the sense that any theory is formal.
On Thu, Jul 4, 2013 at 3:32 AM, Eric Walker <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Jul 4, 2013 at 12:02 AM, James Bowery <[email protected]> wrote: > > I said "operational definitions" are crucial to experiments and that's >> virtually by definition. You, yourself, admitted it when you tried to >> escape from an operational definition of intelligence by using art as a >> proxy and then you went ahead and found yourself providing an operational >> definition of art. >> > > Ah, thank you for the clarification. I didn't mean to try to escape from > an operational definition -- just a formal one. > > Eric > >
