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From: pindor@gpu.utcc.utoronto.ca (Andrzej Pindor)
Subject: Re: Randomness is a human concept (was Re: Time is a human concept)
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References: <1994Nov4.212525.22792@galileo.cc.rochester.edu> <1994Nov5.064902.12550@galileo.cc.rochester.edu> <39gpcl$fea@news.acns.nwu.edu> <39h61v$j7q@golem.wcc.govt.nz>
Date: Tue, 8 Nov 1994 18:35:02 GMT
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In article <39h61v$j7q@golem.wcc.govt.nz>,  <beggs_j@ix.wcc.govt.nz> wrote:
>In article <39gpcl$fea@news.acns.nwu.edu>, jed@nam.earth.nwu.edu (John DeLaughter) writes:
>>Thus, in the rest of the sciences, the preferred term is
>>correctness, as in "Theory A predicted Event B and is therefore correct in
>>this domain".  Note that this doesn't mean thoery A is true - just that it
>>correctly predicted (or described) an event.
>
>My version of this statement would run something like this:-
>  
>  "We observed that the conditions for theory A to apply were in effect. 
>We then observed the occurrence of event B.  Hence we say that in this
>one instance theory A correctly predicted event B."
>
This remind me a story of an engineer, a physicist and a mathematician 
traveling in Scotland. While their train passes a flock of sheep (I suppose
it could be New Zeeland too) and they see that one sheep is black, the
engineer exclaims: So in Scotland there are black sheep! Well, well, says
the physicist, in all fairness we can only claim that there is one black
sheep in Scotland. You are both wrong, says the mathematician, all we can say
is that in Scotland there is a sheep which is black on one side.
..............
>
>    Jeff Beggs  beggs_j@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz

Andrzej
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Andrzej Pindor                        The foolish reject what they see and 
University of Toronto                 not what they think; the wise reject
Instructional and Research Computing  what they think and not what they see.
pindor@gpu.utcc.utoronto.ca                           Huang Po
