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Dr Adequate
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10-03-2011 4:20 PM 		Reply to: Message 297 by Chuck77
10-03-2011 3:55 AM

Re: Is Science Logical?
And then use the answer in the future against us when necessary?
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Well, why not?
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There are times when you seem to resent being on a debate forum. Well, you come here of your own free will.
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10-05-2011 1:18 PM 		Reply to: Message 334 by New Cat's Eye
10-05-2011 12:05 PM

Re: english 101
But science rules things out by falsifying them, not because of a lack of evidence for them... those things it just ignores.
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No, not really. A scientist might perfectly well write: "Of all extant animals, only birds, bats, and insects can fly." This is not because pigs with wings have been falsified (one can only falsify a universal and not a particular proposition) but because there is no evidence for them --- that is, because the proposition that pigs don't have wings has not been falsified.
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10-05-2011 5:10 PM 		Reply to: Message 339 by New Cat's Eye
10-05-2011 1:39 PM

Re: english 101
If I end up with better predictions of the position of a falling body by using Newtonian Mechanics than I do by using General Relativity, that wouldn't mean that Newtonian Mechanics more closely matches reality.
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Could you expand on this point?
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