Le 07-juin-05, à 08:27, Lee Corbin a écrit :
> It's perfectly clear to me which of the two is more important:
> prediction
> or explanation?
>
> Now that I have been self-liberated from fear of circularity,
> it's clear that: each is more important than the other!
Here I think you contradict yourself (it's a bit worst than circular).
>
> Lee
>
> P.S. Someone pointed out to me off-list that I was far from the
> first to have had this epiphany about circular reasoning:
>
> "However, I think Bruno already has this idea.
>
> "Hence a Reality, yes. But not necessarily a
> physical reality. Here is the logical dependence:
>
> NUMBERS -> "MACHINE DREAMS" -> PHYSICAL -> HUMANS -> PHYSICS ->
> NUMBERS.
> --- Bruno Marchal"
But then you said to me: "As for circular, too bad your theories
aren't circular! They'd
explain more."
But ok, I should have written:
> PLATONIST NUMBERS -> "MACHINE DREAMS" -> PHYSICAL -> HUMANS -> HUMAN
> NUMBERS.
I don't think I was circular there.
http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~marchal/
Received on Tue Jun 07 2005 - 11:45:47 PDT