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Re:What’s so bad about Scientism? by mizzao on Friday March 31, 2017 @11:13AM (#14004615)
Your experiment depends on the way your scale defines "1", "2", and "kg", and can't be used to test this.
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Re:What’s so bad about Scientism? by kijin on Friday March 31, 2017 @08:20PM (#14009554)
That's the point. You can't design an empirical experiment to falsify the definitions of basic concepts.
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