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briandmyers  ·  3253 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: If you see kleinb00 please share this with them

If you really don't know why you were muted (which I doubt), it's probably this :

    Both fields feature a lack of experimental verifiability

"Both" referring to economics and medicine. If you really believe that medicine has a lack of experimental verifiability, maybe you should back up that assertion - because it sounds kinda ridiculous to me.

I don't care if you do or don't, though - I got no dog in this fight.





user-inactivated  ·  3253 days ago  ·  link  ·  

If you want to get all Popperian, no empirical science has experimental verifiability.

briandmyers  ·  3253 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Are you saying that medicine makes no falsifiable predictions?

It seems to me that ONLY empirical science has experimental verifiability. Maybe we have a disagreement about definitions - but falsifiability is what clinical drug trials (for example) is all about. Maybe I don't understand what you're saying.

user-inactivated  ·  3253 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I was splitting hairs a little, but Popper's solution to the problem of induction was that you could never verify something experimentally, you could only falsify it. So you have falsifiability, but never verifiability. By failing to falsify something you become more confident it's true, but you never verify it.

am_Unition  ·  3253 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I love your constant attention to mathematical purity, and I thank you for it.

Also, I have a draft I'm working on (RE: our discussion on AI), but who knows if I'll ever finish.

briandmyers  ·  3253 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Gotcha. Thanks for that.