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Old 28-March-2008, 09:36 PM
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Originally Posted by Ken G View Post
I think we'd do well to come away with one new term!
Yep.

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The category that offers no predictability but does have observational evidence I would claim does not exist as a separate entity within science (it is just a semantic restatement of the observational evidence).
I assume this is our target term, since the lack of testable predicitions alone spells doom, since predicability is a well established requirement of the scientific method, and any fuzzy that has no observational evidence,too, is D.O.A. as a "theory", once this new term becomes established.
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Last edited by George : 28-March-2008 at 09:38 PM. Reason: quick doom phrase
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