Inference and its role in NS (General)

by xeno6696 , Sonoran Desert, Monday, January 10, 2011, 23:01 (5067 days ago) @ xeno6696

Not exactly the article's topic, but I will comment on it soon enough using it...
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> http://evolvingthoughts.net/2011/01/08/phylogeny-induction-and-the-straight-rule-of-hom... recent discussions about my position in terms of evolution by NS is illuminated a bit in this blogpost. -I follow this blogger because he is quite cautious in anything/everything he says; he is a philosopher of biology, so there's good reason for his cautiousness.-This post is about the role of inference in phylogeny. It discusses something called the "grue" problem. If you read the article, it explains this problem well. -It demonstrates quickly the practical and pragmatic nature of science. -It was only the philosophers of the day that were perplexed... the scientists simply absorbed the new information into their model and kept going. -This ties to two claims I make repeatedly:-1. Science is ONLY about model building. (Though scientists and the general public tend to forget this...) -2. Inference always inherits the problem of probabilities... meaning, that, science (using inference as its primary tool) is only every about probabilities, and that this means that though we would like them to be dogmatic, scientific "truths" are always approximations.

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\"Why is it, Master, that ascetics fight with ascetics?\"

\"It is, brahmin, because of attachment to views, adherence to views, fixation on views, addiction to views, obsession with views, holding firmly to views that ascetics fight with ascetics.\"