On 11/21/2019 9:54 PM, Philip Thrift wrote:
On Thursday, November 21, 2019 at 11:42:29 PM UTC-6, Philip Thrift wrote:
On Thursday, November 21, 2019 at 6:22:05 PM UTC-6, Brent wrote:
On 11/21/2019 11:28 AM, Philip Thrift wrote:
They make predictions of outcomes whether or not those
outcomes are ever observed.
It's tautalogous that predictions are of "outcomes". The point
was that they can be judged right or wrong/*only*/ if they are
predictions of /*observations.*/ Otherwise they are like your
priest predicting that a donation to the church will put you
in heaven when you die.
Whether predictions are "right" or not is a pragmatic
practice that is outside the scientific
model/formulation/theory itself.
A pragmatic practice? So when Eddington measured the
deflection of starlight by the Sun, he should have then asked
himself whether it will be/*useful */to think that his
observation matched Einstein's predict? He should have thought
about what papers could be written and chairs endowed?
Brent
Models make predictions of outcomes whether they are observed by
humans (or hypothetical intelligent beings) or not. The models
predict outcomes in galaxies far from ours. In multiverse models,
they may make predictions of outcomes in other universes where we
don't even live.
How human observations relate to models (their predicted outcomes)
is a matter of *pragmatic philosophy*, or so-called agreed-upon
scientific practice. But this is not part of the models.
@philipthrift
Also models (like Einstein Field Equations) make predictions of
outcomes that are at odds with observations
So at last you agree that we use theories to make predictions and we
compare them with observations.
(quantum-scale phenomena, wormholes, etc.), but we still keep them
around. Again, that's *pragmatic philosophy*. They are just tools that
my be replaced by other tools in the future.
Yes, I know how it works.
Brent
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