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From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: Software Engineering and Dreamers
Date: 1997/06/09
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Jason said

<<The crocidile theory stipulates the existence of crocodiles.  If these
crocodiles cannot be detected by any means and simpler explanations for
alleged crocodile activity cannot be disproven, then the theory isn't
very useful.>>

No, it's stronger than that, if something cannot be detected by any means,
then from a scientific point of view, it simply cannot be part of any theory.