"experiment" Re: Waradpande seems to have destroyed PIE already

On Dec 3, 2:58 am, Franz Gnaedinger <f...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Dec 2, 8:08 pm, "Peter T. Daniels" <gramma...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

[subject changed so as to escape Rindhole's latest bout of trollery]

Please learn the meaning of "experiment."

What dibbuk is riding you? My understanding and use
of the wordexperimentis exactly conform with the
definition in my Webster's Unabridged. If you want
a piece of kitchen etyomology I'd say ex-peri-ment
is a word composed of Latin and Greek, meaning this:
being of a mind (mens mentis) that likes to step out (ex)
of the ordinary, the common place and the common
sense, the framework of the prevailing theory, and walk
around (peri) the situation, looking at it from the outside,
testing it, observing it from every accessible vantage
point, discovering new aspects, gaining new ideas,
testing them again, and so on. Apparently you have
no understanding of these processes, Lord Textbook,
Don Label, Sir Category. You are the mainstreamer
par excellence.

Ok. A conveniently short way of putting it occurred to me while I was
driving through a puddle this morning. (I have to move the car on
Mondays and Thursdays, so rather than simply emit pollution by driving
around the block, I generally do my errands then.)

An experiment is when one (a scientist, generally) tests a hypothesis
by setting up some controlled environment of interest, varying the
parameters (one at a time, ideally) by controlled increments, and
observing the results. With a good hypothesis, the results will
conform to expectations. With an inadequate hypothesis, they won't,
and the hypothesis will need revising or replacing (and science will
have been done).
.

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