From: Jonathan B. Marder (jonathan.marder@newmail.net)
Date: Wed Nov 06 2002 - 12:19:17 GMT
Hi Davor,
DAVOR
The static patterns are static because they proofed themselves to
be of high quality, so the longer a static pattern of value seem to last
the
higher the quality is. This creates a huge contradiction in my
understanding
of the Moq, the contradiction between how the receptiveness to change
relates to the unreceptiveness of some high quality static patterns. The
quality of a pattern is thus determined by the time it lasts which in is
determined by the pragmatic <usability>.
JONATHAN replies
This is the paradigm by which science works, or least that is how it is
according to Karl Popper.
For something to be considered a scientific hypothesis, it must be
"falsifiable".
That means that the hypothesis can be tested (by experiment) and
rejected if the results are different from what the hypothesis predicts.
A good scientific theory is one which produces hypotheses that
repeatedly stand up to tests.
An example that springs to mind is Peter Mitchel's chemiosmotic theory
(Nobel prize 1978) that explains the coupling between
reduction-oxidation reactions (in respiration and photosynthesis) and
synthesis of ATP. When proposed in 1970, the theory was unpopular and a
number of good scientists tried hard to disprove (falsify) it. By 1978,
the contraversy was mostly over - widespread failure to disprove
Mitchel is what led to his theory being accepted. It is now considered
mainstream biochemistry . . . . until someone comes up with a better
idea.
Jonathan
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