... [I presume you mean "predictions" above? - JB] This sounds like "instrumentalism" -- the doctrine that science is nothing more than a formal set of...
... My point was that Newton didn't arrive at his Second Law by seeing one massive object subject to a force whose magnitude was proportional to the product of...
... You seem to be using the word 'inductive' as a cover-all term for the complement of 'deductive'. That is a mistake. I suggest you consult a basic...
... Here's Induction: You want to prove F(n) is true for all n. So you prove 1) F(0) and 2) IF F(n) THEN F(n+1) That means that you can start with F(0) (which...
I am more or less convinced by a variety of evidence that the B-W difference in the US was much larger early in the 20th century-- perhaps on the order of 1.5...
... NO. I know he did not do that. He invented calculus and fit equations of motion of earth going around the sun etc. He solved differential equations. ... ...
... Instrumentalism is the watered down version of realism to make really hard-headed philosophers happy, e.g. Ok, you are right, we can never "know" but if...
... Whatever it is, one can always be a 100% die-hard skeptic and deny that it is "really true" (abusing words!). I wonder if skeptics are ever skeptical...
... White raven draws some double takes SIGHTINGS: Unusual bird shows up in Fairbanks for fourth winter of foraging. By Tim Mowry Fairbanks Daily News-Miner ...
Steve Moxon, I do not like the rather sneering tone of this comment "So this is doing the rounds again, is it". Gene selectionism is not simply a perspective,...
Charles Murray: I am more or less convinced by a variety of evidence that the B-W difference in the US was much larger early in the 20th century--perhaps on...
Philipp Langer, M.A. Nowak, Christoph Hauert, 2007/8. Jour. Theoretical Biology IN PRESS. ABSTRACT. The evolutionary puzzle of cooperation describes situations...
Daniel Lawson, H.F. Jensen, Kunihiko Kaneko, 2007/8. Diversity as a product of inter-specific interactions. Jour. Theoretical Biology IN PRESS. ABSTRACT. We...
A perspective necessarily is "wrong and overly narrow". That's what a perspective is. Perspectives are adopted because they serve some important function at...
Dear All! My Comments: But there are some 150.000 types of gene/genetic damage. And in the not so distant future nearly all embryos will have one (or more)...
Dear All! [Copy: Google News:] Rare disease beginning to affect more people WAFF - Huntsville,AL,USA A rare disease that can be deadly is becoming more common...
Dear All! [Copy from Google News:] My beautiful two-year-old boy has Alzheimer s Daily Mail - UK When she rang back, she said the baby had suffered from a very...
Please, Elizabeth, I would not do anything for a thought someone had, but I still hold that if a pedophile was acting out, and I will not get graphic, on or...
Merle... as I said, if they think it and don't act on it, very good for them. They at least have the awareness that it may hurt someone perhaps. And if you re...
<Snip> ... There is a perfect example of falsification of a general statement; e.g. "ravens are black". The statement is R=>B or R(x)=>B(x) (If x is a raven,...
... RKS: This is why scientists do science so much better than philosophers. Science laws are always considered interim ie are true until a counterexample...
In regard to my post that Black-White IQ differences are as large today (more than 1.1 standard deviations) as they were 100 years ago (military samples from...
I personnally think that pedophilic behaviours are phenotypes engendered by genotypes, I think that different genotypes found in individuals of populations are...
... Hullo, Elizabeth, Unfortunately, the fantasy is often the precursor to the action. One difference between Iris and the pedophile is that Iris is not out...
... Those of us who have 9 autographed copies of this book, memorized the text and whom the author has asked to call him Hank know that the actual title of...
... basal ... This paper is open access and is available for download at: http://www.pnas.org/cgi/reprint/0708072104v1 Again, it would be really helpful if...
... Well said. I also mistrust the shocking degree of self-righteousness apparent in so many posts here and the public pronouncements of feminists. It is clear...
