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How Can A Man Who Loses A Race Be Called The Winner & What Does This Have To Do With Science?
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How Can A Man Who Loses A Race Be Called The Winner & What Does This Have To Do With Science?

In which we start simple, stay simple, come to Plateau Easy, and the readers begins to wonder why he bothers, which he discovers at the end to his puzzlement. Get…
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There Is No Difference Between A Proposal, Hypothesis, Model, Theory or Law
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There Is No Difference Between A Proposal, Hypothesis, Model, Theory or Law

Ready for some Logic 101? Something real easy, I promise. We'll use it in service to show why falsificationism is not that interesting, or useful, and we'll need it in…
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There Is No Problem Of Old Evidence In Bayesian Probability
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There Is No Problem Of Old Evidence In Bayesian Probability

Rationalists, like those at Less Wrong (think Eliezer Yudkowsky and Scott Alexander), are prone to fetishsize Bayes theorem, seeing it as the key to all thought. It isn't. Bayes is…
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The Multiverse Hides The Problem It Was Supposed To Solve, And Calls It Solved
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The Multiverse Hides The Problem It Was Supposed To Solve, And Calls It Solved

Let's end the review of Sabine Hossenfelder's book. We did some already: Emergence, Entropy, and Many Worlds. With this post, we'll have covered the most interesting topics. Old Hoss, and…
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What Are All The Uses To Which (So-Called) Random Numbers Are Put?
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What Are All The Uses To Which (So-Called) Random Numbers Are Put?

Listen to the podcast at YouTube, Bitchute or Gab (to come). From Anon comes the major announcement: "Quside unveils the world’s first Randomness Processing Unit". Quside today unveils its vision…
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What Is A Model? We need to know to test between good and bad science
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What Is A Model? We need to know to test between good and bad science

Listen to the podcast at YouTube, BitChute, and Gab. Before we describe what models are in science, it's best to know, and to never forget, that all models only say…
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All Those Warnings About Models Are True: Researchers Given Same Data Come To Huge Number Of Conflicting Findings
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All Those Warnings About Models Are True: Researchers Given Same Data Come To Huge Number Of Conflicting Findings

Seventy-some researcher groups were given identical data, and asked to investigate an identical question. The groups did not communicate. Details are in the paper "Observing Many Researchers Using the Same…
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Probability is Logic
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Probability is Logic

I was reading a draft of a book our own Fr John Rickert's is working on. Visual Logic: Seeing Classical and Modern Logic: An Introduction, a neat little handbook showing…
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