Jenny wrote:
Steve Kilbane wrote:
Jenny wrote:
I'm not making this up you know. This is no self deluding "IMO"
bullshit..
The pattern's there. Everything fits.
Even assuming that that is the case,
It is the case.
that doesn't mean you're right.
Yes it does.
Sorry, no. Saying it does, doesn't work, either. See Popper.
It means you have a hypothetical model which fits the facts you've observed.
Yes, Dr Havant.
Which means, what, exactly?
Other models that do not contradict the same evidence are
equally valid.
But there are no others that do this and fit all the "facts."
You can't know that. See Popper, again.
Standard scientific approach, diluted somewhat
by individual interpretations of what is a "fact", in a dramatic presentation. :-/
Who do you think writes these stories? Aliens? No, human beings. Therefore the stories will, to a great extent, reflect human society.
Which has nothing to do with the processes of logical deduction, or the ability to recognise supposition for what it is, rather than facts.
This conversation with you reminds me greatly of that scene in TWB with Dr Havant.
If you like. It's irrelevant, but you can be reminded of it, if you like.
Note: anyone offering Occam's razor as a tie-breaker also has to offer a mutually agreeable definition of "simplest".
Simplicity is always easy to recognise.
Note "mutually agreeable".
steve
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Steve Kilbane