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Helping a Friend about the Nature of Science

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08-21-2010 3:46 PM 		Reply to: Message 19 by crashfrog
08-21-2010 3:24 PM

Re: The way science works
crashfrog writes:
Perfect certainty is an illusion.
Just become a mathematician. Then you can have perfect certainty within mathematics.
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09-19-2010 5:55 PM 		Reply to: Message 29 by Yrreg
09-19-2010 4:38 PM

Re: Something exists on the quantum level and in chaos.
Yrreg writes:
If no one believes that chance is any cause of anything at all, that is fine by me.
I see "chance" as a descriptive term, but not as a causal term.
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Yrreg writes:
You bring in chaos, I would like to ask you what you mean by chaos in science.
Typically, "chaos" is used when small changes in initial conditions can result in larges changes in the outcome.
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