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>From: pindor@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca (Andrzej Pindor)
Subject: Re: Intelligence Testing
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References: <1992Jan18.144220.11862@oracorp.com> <1992Jan18.195906.15800@news.media.mit.edu> <6029@skye.ed.ac.uk> <1992Jan21.164022.132@lrc.edu>
Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1992 19:21:29 GMT

In article <1992Jan21.164022.132@lrc.edu> lehman_ds@lrc.edu writes:
>   Jeff brings up a good point.  We seem to be trying to prove and disprove
>ideas that really can't, as with Einsteins theory of Relativity, it can never
>be proven.  To say two things are distinguised by something we cannot prove

Einstein's theory of Relativity makes clear, experimentally verifiable
predictions and has so far stood experimental tests. In this sense it is 
'proven'. If in future we will find phenomena which it cannot correctly 
describe, it will mean that we need a more general theory, ecompassing the
theory of relativity in similiar way as Einstein's theory of relativity 
ecompasses Newton's theory.
 
>   Drew Lehman
>   Lehman_ds@mike.lrc.edu


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