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Re:1 in 4 Statisticians Say They Were Asked to Commit Scient... by m_mueller on Saturday November 03, 2018 @02:35AM (#18369026)
science can never prove anything as a matter of principle. it can only disprove all the alternatives. math and logic can prove, but only within the model it has built up, which has been shown to contain unprovable axioms that one must simply accept.
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Re:1 in 4 Statisticians Say They Were Asked to Commit Scient... by BurningFrog on Saturday November 03, 2018 @02:59AM (#18369084)
Yeah, I'm aware of the strict theory.
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