Re: What does this have to do with electronics?

From: John Woodgate (jmw_at_jmwa.demon.contraspam.yuk)
Date: 09/12/04 

Date: Sun, 12 Sep 2004 10:19:30 +0100

I read in sci.electronics.design that Kevin Aylward
<salesEXTRACT@anasoft.co.uk> wrote (in <WFT0d.22661$F73.3169@fe2.news.bl
ueyonder.co.uk>) about 'What does this have to do with electronics?', on
Sun, 12 Sep 2004:

Some rude person wrote:

>> I keep trying to tell you, Aylward, that just because you don't
>> believe in something, doesn't make it not so.
>>
>
>I keep trying to tell you, lack of proof that there is not something
>else out there, is no basis to form a conjecture that there is.

I think that's too hard. I think it's not unreasonable to base a
*conjecture* (no more) on a lack of satisfaction with an explanation.
There are several precedents; Mendeleev's conjecture of the Periodic
Table, being not satisfied with Newlands' Law of Octaves, general
dissatisfaction with the proliferation of sub-atomic particles, leading
to the 'quark' conjecture (as it then was).

What is NOT sensible is to base anything MORE than a conjecture, i.e. a
hypothesis and especially not a theory, on mere dissatisfaction. A
hypothesis has to be testable to be come a theory, and a theory has to
predict further falsifiable results. 

-- 
Regards, John Woodgate, OOO - Own Opinions Only. 
The good news is that nothing is compulsory.
The bad news is that everything is prohibited.
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