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soupdragon2: Ah, this is perhaps the most pertinent point yet. If I understand you correctly, you seem to be saying that scientists and philosophers may work with different definitions?
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Based upon your comments in this thread and the "belief system" thread it occurred to me that could be the case.
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For me this is the problem! I contend that they cannot and should not work with differing defintions. Hopefully the opening paragraph in my previous post underlines this fundamental point.
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Now I had thought that perhaps you were not giving your definition because you were willing to work with whatever definition we considered. This should be and interesting discussion once you provide your definition because we all understand that scientific theories should be "falsifiable" but perhaps that concept isn't explored as deeply as it should be.