[Corpora-List] Re: ANC, FROWN, Fuzzy Logic

[FIDELHOLTZ_DOOCHIN_JAMES_LAWRENCE]

Ya gotta love it: somebody who knows that theories can't be proven! 
(Personally, I admit that there *could* be a correct theory, but of course 
we would never be able to prove it is true -- good candidates might be 
theories that last a long time without being disproven; still, Newton's 
lasted well over a century completely accepted, only to bump into Einstein's 
'better' theory, which has also undergone modifications ....) I guess good 
scientists are those who do their best to disprove their own (and others') 
theories, in the hope that, if they can't, they can at least be honest and 
up-front about the data their theory does *not* handle, in the further hope 
that someone else will be able to tweak, modify or change the theory in a 
way that *will* handle those data (or some of them). 

Jim 

Nicholas Sanders escribió: 

> Whilst I do realise that some treat theories as belief systems, they  
> should not - espouse a theory, never believe it. As for the notion of  
> correct theories - since they can only be *disproved*, twice never!!
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James L. Fidelholtz
Posgrado en Ciencias del Lenguaje, ICSyH
Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla     MÉXICO