From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,75a8a3664688f227 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-01-16 04:30:03 PST Path: supernews.google.com!sn-xit-03!supernews.com!freenix!teaser.fr!fr.clara.net!heighliner.fr.clara.net!unlisys!news.snafu.de!cs.tu-berlin.de!uni-duisburg.de!l1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de!sb463ba From: sb463ba@l1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de (Georg Bauhaus) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Parameter Modes, In In Out and Out Date: 16 Jan 2001 12:22:29 GMT Organization: GMUGHDU Message-ID: <941ee5$nbo$2@news-hrz.uni-duisburg.de> References: <7Cx56.90736$A06.3322588@news1.frmt1.sfba.home.com> <937jab$s23$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <3A57CD7F.2228BFD5@brighton.ac.uk> <938p3u$omv$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <93cagm$c1j$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <93e4e6$ucg$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <93encq$brm$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <93f6ar$m44$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <93flab$2mh$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <93fqau$6m2$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <93h9mo$bbm$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <93il87$iqo$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <93k6dv$qt6$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <93ko49$auq$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <93modu$36k$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <93n2co$alq$1@nnrp1.deja.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: l1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Xref: supernews.google.com comp.lang.ada:4051 Date: 2001-01-16T12:22:29+00:00 List-Id: Robert Dewar (robert_dewar@my-deja.com) wrote: : If science to you is strictly restricted to things that can : be objectively measured O.K. whatever "objectively" might mean objectively (yes, I know the model ;/). : and test the theories by experimentation. According to this : definitely, ... : for sure social science : etc are not sciences either Please, I'm suprised, no such unsupportable claims from someone who uses to require arguments. I'm not sure what exact notion of social science etc. you have, but I know one notion usually held up by engineers and nat. "scientist", about soft/hard, exact/inexact etc sciences that is largely based on ignorance and aquired blind spots (anologous to "Ada is dead"). But that's OT on cla, of course Georg Bauhaus