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From: steve@hubcap.UUCP (Steve )
Newsgroups: sci.philosophy.tech
Subject: Re: Definition of science and of scientific method.
Message-ID: <369@hubcap.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 7-Aug-87 08:36:09 EDT
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Posted: Fri Aug  7 08:36:09 1987
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in article <122@aiva.ed.ac.uk>, jeff@aiva.ed.ac.uk (Jeff Dalton) says:
> .... Making them explicit is Philosophy of Science, rather than Science.
> It is Science itself that determines what exists, what we can observe,
> and what representations are useful.

Whoa.  I thought that was the senses and perception and measurement etc.  This
is/was the purview of philosophy.  Science "determined" that "aether" was
real until another "science" decided it was not.  What you are calling
"Science" I would call modeling.
-- 
Steve Stevenson                            steve@hubcap.clemson.edu
(aka D. E. Stevenson),                     dsteven@clemson.csnet
Department of Computer Science,            (803)656-5880.mabell
Clemson University, Clemson, SC 29634-1906