Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!helios.ee.lbl.gov!nosc!humu!uhccux!lee 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> Organization: University of Hawaii Lines: 9 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