it should be the default mindset for scientific thinking. you don't discount the possibility but you don't also reject it outright pending proof. however, when a large bill is presented, all equations compute "bullshit."JR8 wrote:'skeptical open mindedness' in such matters, is the preserve of the young, or where someone else is paying the bill...
Some say, to put it succinctly, it's 'assume something and then try to prove it wrong.'JR8 wrote:.... I defer to Karl Popper, and the idea that in trying to prove something (i.e. as in science), you have already assumed a conclusion, a 'positive' outcome to your test.
I'll recount my experiences of psychs another time lol...
Ha ha that just about sums it up nicely. Celebs are the most level headed normal group of people you can find on this planet. Once "Hollywood" enters the equation you know you are onto a major scam, thats what the place is all about, getting people to part with cash for brilliant illusion.flebowitz wrote:... having major celebs as clients
ah, great. http://www.paulyshoreadopted.com/QRM wrote:If theres a void in your life that needs filling better off handing the cash to some starving kid in a mud hut to make yourself feel better.
nakatago wrote:Some say, to put it succinctly, it's 'assume something and then try to prove it wrong.'JR8 wrote:.... I defer to Karl Popper, and the idea that in trying to prove something (i.e. as in science), you have already assumed a conclusion, a 'positive' outcome to your test.
I'll recount my experiences of psychs another time lol...
Speaking of psychics, the new season of Psych premiers July 14.
ah, but these particles are predicted to exist by the math. so, these theoretical physicists didn't just pull the notion of these particles out of their arses. of course, this is giving experimental physicists a hard time to design the experiments to find them (hence, the LHC for starters).JR8 wrote:nakatago wrote:Some say, to put it succinctly, it's 'assume something and then try to prove it wrong.'JR8 wrote:.... I defer to Karl Popper, and the idea that in trying to prove something (i.e. as in science), you have already assumed a conclusion, a 'positive' outcome to your test.
I'll recount my experiences of psychs another time lol...
Speaking of psychics, the new season of Psych premiers July 14.
Well. You don't imagine a say 'mumbo-jumbo sub-atomic particle' and then set about trying to disprove it's existence. Science tends to seek to prove assumptions, the existance of the Higgs boson particle for example: any experimentation assumes it exists, and seeks to find it.
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