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From: gilbert@cs.glasgow.ac.uk (Gilbert Cockton)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: Randomness, the universe, and Turing machines
Message-ID: <1656@crete.cs.glasgow.ac.uk>
Date: 23 Sep 88 11:15:09 GMT
References: <1369@garth.UUCP> <2346@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu> <1383@garth.UUCP> <936@l.cc.purdue.edu> <1024@leah.Albany.Edu>
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In article <1024@leah.Albany.Edu> gbn474@leah.Albany.Edu (Gregory Newby) writes:
>  And if it ain't testable, it ain't science (ref:  your introductory methods
>textbook from ___101).
and if it is tested, it may still be uncertain  (ref: any proper
discussion of hypothetico-deductive methods)

>ps:  i *had* to say that.
Me too
-- 
Gilbert Cockton, Department of Computing Science,  The University, Glasgow
	gilbert@uk.ac.glasgow.cs !ukc!glasgow!gilbert