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The deep irony in valuing matter more than valuing values is never wasted on me. You still haven't figured out that "matter" is yet another man-made concept? An abstract idea. A co…

That's why the best strategy is divide&conquer - run the razors concurrently. Assume complexity then move towards simplicity. Assume simplicity then move towards complexity. One of…

You seem to be speaking from a place of greatly diminished self-awareness. Notice how you are constantly appealing to abstract unobservables to make your claims. No shame in that -…

Obviously you can look at all the parts from whatever perspective you want. It is your philosophical predisposition to dismantle things and understand how they work. But when you a…

You seem to be missing the point. Ignoring for a second that the laws of thermodynamics themselves are based upon a handful of idealizations (the idealization of "thermal equilibri…

For much the same reasons as grouping cars and engines separately is erroneous. It's not really a car without an engine.

Ok… I reject your reality and substitute my own. In this reality I don’t have to do the mental gymnastics where the formal *sciences* aren’t sciences. In this reality there is at l…

It's pointless to speak of usefulness without specifying a utility function. It is just as possible to differentiate as it is to integrate. If it is determined a priori that unfals…

In the spirit of bullshit-busting and critical thought here's a thought experiment... Alan Turing: The claims made in the Halting Problem is genrally true, and is therefore unfalsi…

We who? Don't "we" also need a grouping to make it even clearer that some fields can't produce any falsifiable theories if other fields don't produce at least some unfalsifiable th…

Is it the "philosophy of science"? What is now called "science" was once called "natural philosophy"? Maybe it's the science of science? Maybe it's the philosophy of philosophy? Ma…

You may not see it as exclusionary but many people do. Just look at the comments! It's precisely the grouping I am talking about. If you group science in such a way so that logic/m…

>Not by this definition. Which is precisely the problem with all definitions I am drawing attention to - they are exclusionary in nature. Sometimes creating distinctions is useful.…

Your failure to understand what I am saying is abysmal. >That is what I said. I showed a mathematical statement and I showed how you could falsify it. >Since you said "mathematics …

I merely attempting to reciprocate/mirror your tone. You are the one (self)identifying it as "rude". I have some idea about what you do and don't know about definition and definabi…

The problem with all ideas is always their reification. Computers may be deterministic, but humans aren't. The same software/idea produces wildly different understandings; and beha…

Hickam's dictum is also provable. In the domains where simplicity prevails Occam's razor is more probable. In domains where complexity prevails Hickam's dictum is more probable.

In asking a statement to be falsified (in principle) you are assuming it to be true (in principle). Is is true? What makes it true? >A concept which will in no way ever make a diff…

I am talking about (theoretical) computer science, not (practical) software engineering. This should've been clear in the context of my question: "Are the formal sciences (logic/ma…

I am struggling to spot the charity in all your condescension. metaphysics /ˌmɛtəˈfɪzɪks/ noun the branch of philosophy that deals with the first principles of things, including ab…

What makes this assertion; or the assertion “If it isn’t disprovable - it isn’t science” true?

The study of being qua being; or science qua science; or mathematics qua mathematics; or X qua X for any X. Metaphysics. Or as it is commonly referred to in computer science: funct…

Someone should tell you that there is a difference between a conjecture and a theorem. Theorems are unfalsifiable.

One way to view metaphysics is as the science of science. So if the science of science is not science - is that not a contradiction?

It is in the nature of definitions to include some things and exclude others. If the definition of “science” excluded computer science as a science; would you say the definition is…