Re: MD Quality, subjectivity and the 4th level

From: Michael Hamilton (thethemichael@gmail.com)
Date: Wed Nov 30 2005 - 15:38:28 GMT

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    Ian,

    > Then you have missed my point - proof and disproof are different
    > animals scientifically (atheistically). There is no such thing as
    > positive proof, only absence of disproof.

    I'm not sure I understand this. Are you referring to Popper's
    falsificationist theory of science? Or that induction can never
    provide certainty?

    I could point out that there are perfectly atheistic positive proofs
    in maths, but that would just be point-scoring.

    > If you mean to say, you see equally valid areguments either way, then
    > you are presumably agnostic, like Case, and not atheistic.

    Precisely.

    Regards,
    Mike

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