Nancy Cartwright has argued that there are no fundamental laws as such. Only phenomenological/ constitutive
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absence of evidence is evidence of absence, though https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/mnS2WYLCGJP2kQkRn/absence-of-evidence-is-evidence-of-absence … http://oyhus.no/AbsenceOfEvidence.html …
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Yeah, this is a narrow bayesian argument that simply does not apply outside conditions that are sort of ergodic in the behavior space. The general principle is more broadly applicable. You need to establish exhaustiveness of coverage to claim otherwise.
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the trick is to look for and characterize conditions where those minute diffs *could* have strong effects and ask where they are in fact normal...
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under certain weird conditions -- namely sitting in a metal contraption, humans can fly for certain definitions of "fly". Many of these debunkings are akin to "heavier than air flight is impossible" thinking
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My point is, those loopholes that engineers exploit are also epistemological leaks for people with a bureaucratic, zero-sum view of what science "is" that limits the truths they can discover. Confirmation and disconfirmation are equally important in expanding the known.
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This is only a slight exaggeration and speed-up of the real world. Kuhnian paradigm shifts every week instead of every century, and with median shift being 9 on the Richter scale rather than 6.
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Somebody was arguing a while back about the primacy of scientific instruments— engineered tools — over science qua science, now who was it?
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Much of social science is generally Not Even Phenomenology. It is the unaware science of Revealing Yourself by Projection. Mystic self-knowledge by embarrassing means. The Self-Own is the Nobel Prize. Humanist Falsify Thyself. The fraction that isn’t, is very high value.
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Beautiful tweet.
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