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So, we readily assume causality when "one object produces the other" ... ... but only when it habitually does so. In other words, when you regularly s...
July 25, 2019 at 05:33
There may be a danger in thinking like that. The core claim in religion, the belief in God, is about the origin of the real, physical world. Religion ...
July 25, 2019 at 02:58
Well, my own staunch resistance against incorporating any premature semantics into mathematics, especially en provenance from physics -- which is undo...
July 25, 2019 at 01:40
Other disciplines, unrelated to physics, also successfully use statistics. Hence, physics uses statistics.
July 24, 2019 at 15:44
That is quite an anti-Platonist view. Mathematics deals with counting of not anything in particular. In the abstract, Platonic world of number theory,...
July 24, 2019 at 11:38
On the one side, I do subscribe to formalism: Formalism holds that mathematical statements may be thought of as statements about the consequences of c...
July 24, 2019 at 11:13
Math is not about quantities, or numbers, and in that sense, not about values. Only number theory is. Furthermore, number theory is, in and of itself,...
July 24, 2019 at 02:22
The application of math in the real world is itself not math but always something else, such as physics, engineering, and so on. Math supplies a burea...
July 23, 2019 at 20:31
This unnamed authority was David Hilbert: It has been claimed that formalists, such as David Hilbert (1862–1943), hold that mathematics is only a lang...
July 23, 2019 at 20:09
Do Developers Need College Degrees? Our 2016 Developer Survey found that 56% of developers in fact do not have a college degree in computer science or...
July 23, 2019 at 14:17
Ok. Point conceded. The verificationists, i.e. the Logical positivists within the Vienna Circle, have managed to taint the term so badly that it now c...
July 23, 2019 at 11:30
When I was 14 years old, somewhere in the 80ies, my father came home with a second-hand Apple IIe computer, which had two floppy drives but no hard di...
July 23, 2019 at 04:28
The term "usefulness" is quite controversial in mathematics. I tend to agree with Hardy on the matter: I have never done anything "useful". No discove...
July 23, 2019 at 03:40
I can perfectly see how you were tested for your academic attainment. I just need to take a look at the multiple-choice questions you were supposed to...
July 23, 2019 at 03:20
Meaning, i.e. semantics, are not always a useful goal. The best part of advanced mathematics and metamathematics is about removing all possible meanin...
July 23, 2019 at 03:10
I was educated in Europe. The short answer: there is probably no difference worthwhile mentioning. The core of an education system revolves around how...
July 23, 2019 at 02:54
Well, if Aristotle said this -- I guess he did, and there are other links who say that he did -- he will most likely have done that somewhere in 'Meta...
July 22, 2019 at 14:32
It may be your kids, but that does not mean that you have a say in what the ruling elite's indoctrination machine will teach them. The populace gave u...
July 22, 2019 at 14:16
Not all belief has propositional content, but all knowledge does.
July 22, 2019 at 10:20
In the philosophy of mathematics, formalism is the view that holds that statements of mathematics and logic can be considered to be statements about t...
July 22, 2019 at 04:54
They are trying to do that, but this approach has not succeeded until now. There is the Wikipedia no original research and neutral point of view polic...
July 22, 2019 at 02:53
I have found a reference here: Aristotle also popularized the use of axioms (self-evident principles requiring no proof), claiming that nothing can be...
July 22, 2019 at 02:24
In my opinion, mere predictive modelling without establishing causality should not be counted as science. Only observations en provenance from control...
July 21, 2019 at 21:01
If you justify the axioms, then the justifications will become the new axioms. Your strategy simply leads to infinite regress. That is why the axiomat...
July 21, 2019 at 20:38
From astronomical observations, we know that dark matter exists, makes up 23% of the mass budget of the Universe, clusters strongly to form the load-b...
July 21, 2019 at 20:28
The page in Britannica is good starting point to answer your objections: Axiomatic method, in logic, a procedure by which an entire system (e.g., a sc...
July 21, 2019 at 04:08
These people have already invaded the academia. Examples from the link: University of California, Berkeley University of Denver Syracuse University So...
July 20, 2019 at 15:46
The (Abrahamic) theological argument is that God does not have a physical incarnation. Therefore, anything that has a physical incarnation cannot be t...
July 20, 2019 at 15:31
In "Beware the Big Errors of 'Big Data'", Nassim Taleb creates a beautiful visual representation of the problem: We’re more fooled by noise than ever ...
July 20, 2019 at 15:02
Agreed, but charlatans, such as the ones in the stock market, must not be able to repurpose that capacity to claim scientific status. Most physics is ...
July 20, 2019 at 13:08
Yes, but just the title sounds already impossibly inept: "Is dark matter theory or fact?" I am not even going to read it. Furthermore, this article is...
July 20, 2019 at 08:01
This would only be possible if God deterministically responded to a particular input with the same output. In that case, it would be a function. If yo...
July 20, 2019 at 07:04
Well, other religions may have physical gods, but the Abrahamic ones, i.e. Rabbinic Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, clearly don't. The creator of he...
July 20, 2019 at 05:07
The journalist whom you referred to is not a scientist. He is just some kind of sycophant. Furthermore, only when authoring experimental test reports,...
July 19, 2019 at 15:00
Fundamental physics can be tested experimentally. If a hypothesis cannot at this point, then it is a topic of scientific research, in which they will ...
July 19, 2019 at 12:16
In experimental testing, you must be able to strictly control the inputs: outputs = theoretical_function ( inputs ) When you feed the inputs into the ...
July 19, 2019 at 04:25
This is one of Nassim Taleb's pet peeves: Theory is born from (convex) practice more often than the reverse (the nonteleological property) Science is ...
July 18, 2019 at 14:45
Are you shilling again for the ruling elite? How much are they paying you this time?
July 18, 2019 at 10:14
Well, I meant to say the subatomic structure of ... Sorry, I did not realize that it sounded so ambiguous. You actually pointed out a real problem. In...
July 18, 2019 at 04:55
It depends what subatomic particles it is about. Chemistry makes extensive use of the subatomic structure of electrons, and atom nucleus in terms of p...
July 17, 2019 at 10:52
Can you link to any particular publication in order to clarify what it is about? The scientific method is an empirical method of acquiring knowledge t...
July 16, 2019 at 15:49
Arbitrary observations cannot be used for the purpose of validating scientific theories. It is not possible to establish causality between input and o...
July 16, 2019 at 09:51
You may be confusing peace with pacifism. Pacifism does not lead to peace. Pacifism only leads to contempt. Peace can only exist in mutual respect, an...
July 16, 2019 at 03:46
I certainly agree with what Hrvoje Nikolic writes on the matter: Fundamental randomness as a myth Of course, if the usual form of QM is really the ult...
July 15, 2019 at 20:02
Science is every proposition that can be justified by experimental testing. Science is an epistemic domain, i.e. all knowledge that can be reached and...
July 15, 2019 at 15:24
It is the same question as: Does true randomness exist? At a macro-level, randomness is deemed not to exist: What we normally call “random” is not tru...
July 15, 2019 at 14:59
Mathematical physics is still physics. It is not axiomatic. It will ultimately still be experimentally tested. The amount of mathematics used by physi...
July 14, 2019 at 03:54
I think it is. Beauty certainly signals health, even though it may signal other things too. In a more primitive, more natural society, the ability to ...
July 14, 2019 at 03:30
Well, then we can ask ourselves the question: Is knowledge about knowledge, i.e. the metaknowledge, itself knowledge? If it is itself justified, then ...
July 13, 2019 at 21:39
The question is: What is the knowledge-justification method in epistemology? Pattern matching, just like in science, but instead of matching them to r...
July 13, 2019 at 15:34