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From: keithd@cadovax.UUCP (Keith Doyle)
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Subject: Re: Profundity
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Date: Mon, 29-Jul-85 18:05:08 EDT
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>   Rich, `predict' derives from Latin prae {before} + dicere {say, tell}
>   and roughly means `to tell what will happen BEFORE it happens'.

>-michael

In this instance, 'predict' can also mean, to predict results of an experiment
BEFORE we know what the answer actually is, which allows us to test theories
via methods like 'if a is true, then that would imply that b is true [given]
so if we can determine experimentally that b is true, we have added to the
credibility of the truth of a, and if we can determine experimentally that b
is FALSE, then we may then have proven a to also be false'.

Keith Doyle
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