Re: The speed of gravity revisited

On 5 maio, 11:35, Tom Roberts <tjroberts...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Nowhere is science related to making claims about the world and then
expecting Nature to obey those claims. That is whatVanFlandernis
trying to do, and that simply is not science. <shrug>

TomRoberts

I disagree. Deductive reasoning is applied very often in Science,
simply
because a set of observations, in most of the cases, does not have
a unique solution, i.e., there is not a unique model that explains it.
Therefore,
to expect that inductive reasoning alone will always lead to a correct
interpretation
is a mistake. That's why a set of starting premises ("claims about the
world")
and constraints are often attached in most of data analysis.
.