Xref: cantaloupe.srv.cs.cmu.edu sci.med:59192 sci.philosophy.meta:6757 sci.psychology:12031 Path: cantaloupe.srv.cs.cmu.edu!das-news.harvard.edu!noc.near.net!howland.reston.ans.net!usc!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!pipex!sunic!seunet!kullmar!pkmab!ske From: ske@pkmab.se (Kristoffer Eriksson) Newsgroups: sci.med,sci.philosophy.meta,sci.psychology Subject: Re: Science and methodology (was: Homeopathy ... tradition?) Keywords: science errors Turpin NLP Message-ID: <8020@pkmab.se> Date: 23 Apr 93 06:56:14 GMT References: <1quqlgINN83q@im4u.cs.utexas.edu> Organization: Peridot Konsult i Mellansverige AB, Oerebro, Sweden Lines: 14 In article <1quqlgINN83q@im4u.cs.utexas.edu> turpin@cs.utexas.edu (Russell Turpin) writes: > My definition is this: Science is the investigation of the empirical >that avoids mistakes in reasoning and methodology discovered from previous >work. Reading this definition, I wonder: when should you recognize something as being a "mistake"? It seems to me, that proponents of pseudo-sciences might have their own ideas of what constitutes a "mistake" and which discoveries of such previous mistakes they accept. -- Kristoffer Eriksson, Peridot Konsult AB, Stallgatan 2, S-702 26 Oerebro, Sweden Phone: +46 19-33 13 00 ! e-mail: ske@pkmab.se Fax: +46 19-33 13 30 ! or ...!mail.swip.net!kullmar!pkmab!ske