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From: lee@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu (Greg Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: How to dispose of the free will issue (long)
Message-ID: <2039@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu>
Date: 11 Jul 88 22:27:53 GMT
References: <11906@agate.BERKELEY.EDU>
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From article <11906@agate.BERKELEY.EDU>, by gsmith@garnet.berkeley.edu (Gene W. Smith):
" ids. But he failed to show his explanations were to be preferred
" to the possible alternatives; in other words, to show his ideas
" had any real explanatory power. You would need to show your
" ideas, whatever they are, had genuine explanatory power to claim
" you had a worthwhile scientific theory.

No one ever knows the possible alternatives, therefore no scientific
theory is worthwhile.
	Greg, lee@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu