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From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: Software Engineering and Dreamers
Date: 1997/06/08
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Mat said

<< 
If science were only about prediction (as has been claimed in this thread and
numerous times elsewhere), the crocodile theory would be as valid as the
Newtonian one.
 
But science is not, so the crocodile theory is not.
 >>


Science is only about formulating theories and making predictions (at least
that is the late 20th century post-Heisenberg viewpoint).

But let's look at the two theories here

Newtonian explanation

Crocodiles using the Newtonian theory pushing things around (as best I
understand the MH alternative theory).

Occam's Razor clearly selects the simpler form sans crocodiles, so your
theory, while not predictively inferior, gets rejected solely on this
basis (and on no other!)