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To: Virginia-American

If a hypothesis has no testable consequences, it is superfluous.

That's not what superfluous means.

673 posted on 09/28/2006 5:20:45 PM PDT by Tribune7

To: Tribune7

It's within the bounds of "unnecessary or needless."

674 posted on 09/28/2006 5:22:46 PM PDT by js1138 (The absolute seriousness of someone who is terminally deluded.)

To: Tribune7

That's not what superfluous means.

It is in a scientific context.

676 posted on 09/28/2006 5:24:29 PM PDT by freedumb2003 ("Critical Thinking"="I don't understand it so it must be wrong.")

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