Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!ucsd!ucbvax!decwrl!sun!pitstop!sundc!seismo!uunet!mcvax!ukc!strath-cs!glasgow!gilbert 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> Reply-To: gilbert@cs.glasgow.ac.uk (Gilbert Cockton) Organization: Comp Sci, Glasgow Univ, Scotland Lines: 11 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