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From: rlr@pyuxd.UUCP (Rich Rosen)
Newsgroups: net.origins
Subject: Re: Falsifiability
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Date: Sat, 3-Aug-85 13:08:20 EDT
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>>>     Do you mean that ONLY the `best suited' ones will survive? By that do
>>>     you also mean that the `inferior' ones will perish? And what the
>>>     hell do you mean by `best suited'? [ELLIS]

>>Best suited for survival. No, not ONLY the best ones will survive, best those
>>best ones will most likely dominate the "gene pool" in the subsequent
>>generations.  Right, it's a tautology!!!  [RICH]

>     OK, Rich, I have a theory for you:
>       The universe is really composed of one kind of particle -- ousions. They
>       behave in such a way as to account for all known particles, forces, and
>       other phenomena yet to be discovered. [proposed in net.physics]
> 
>     By Occam, this theory ought to be preferable to anything in physics, since
>     I have reduced all entities to one. 

Occam says eliminate as many ASSUMPTIONS as possible, not "ignore the
evidence".  It's bad enough to twist me, why twist poor Occam?

>>Yeah, smash this...  :-)  I would think a lack of predictivity would be
>>pleasing to someone out to smash causality.

>     What makes you think I want to do that?
> 
>     SMASH CAUSALITY!!!

Oh, gee, I don't know, probably somebody from planet Zupo appending some
little two-word ditty to the end of all your articles against your "will"...
-- 
"Do I just cut 'em up like regular chickens?"    Rich Rosen    ihnp4!pyuxd!rlr