(urth) Silk for calde blog: Wolfe thesis

Jeff Wilson jwilson at io.com
Sat Dec 19 01:57:54 PST 2009


brunians at brunians.org wrote:
> Jeff Wilson writes:
>> brunians at brunians.org wrote:
>>> It is certainly scientific in the old sense.
>>>                            ^^ ^^^ ^^^ ^^^^^
> 
>>> It has been gone over for a long time by some brilliant people and the
>>> loose ends are pretty much all tied up.
> 
>> How about transubstantiation, and other unobservable unfalsifiables?
> 
> What about them?

Unobservable phenomena and unfalsifiable hypotheses are scientific in 
neither the current sense nor that used a thousand years ago.

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