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>From: lehman_ds@lrc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.ai.philosophy
Subject: Re: Intelligence Testing
Message-ID: <1992Jan23.113352.151@lrc.edu>
Date: 23 Jan 92 16:33:52 GMT
References: <1992Jan18.144220.11862@oracorp.com> <1992Jan18.195906.15800@news.media.mit.edu> <6029@skye.ed.ac.uk> <1992Jan21.164022.132@lrc.edu> <1992Jan22.192129.27128@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca>
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In article <1992Jan22.192129.27128@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca>, pindor@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca (Andrzej Pindor) writes:
> 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
> 
> 
> -- 
> Andrzej Pindor
> University of Toronto
> Computing Services
> pindor@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca
   I state once more, the theory as it stands cannot be PROVEN, it can only be
disproven.  By finding an example that does not fit, we technicly disprove it.
What we do with post observational fudging, we often just make the adjustment
to the original idea and call it the same thing, but in reality it ceases to
be th original theory.
    Drew Lehman
    Lehman_ds@lrc.edu


