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To: CedarDave; beckett
The recent studies suggesting that sun activity is the main player in climate change are very convincing when taken with the also recent information on warming on other planets in the solar system. No SUV's there, except Mars of course.
7 posted on 01/20/2004 11:12:36 PM PST by farmfriend ( Isaiah 55:10,11)
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To: farmfriend
" The recent studies suggesting that sun activity is the main player in climate change are very convincing when taken with the also recent information on warming on other planets in the solar system. No SUV's there, except Mars of course."

Yep, that dang Rover.

14 posted on 01/21/2004 7:01:40 AM PST by cookcounty (A "Shaheed" is NOT a "Martyr.")
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One might well view Lakatos’s MRP as a synthesis of what was acceptable in Popper and Kuhn. His main point is that, contrary to ‘naive falsificationism’ (i.e., Popper), theories of a certain sort — the sort that are cores of research programmes — are not sharply falsifiable. They can be cumulatively disconfirmed over a period of time, but they can't be decisively knocked out by a single crucial experiment.

 

This point is charmingly illustrated by the ‘imaginary case of planetary misbehaviour’ which Lakatos recounts in ‘Falsification and the methodology of scientific research programmes’. But in truth we should not need a detour through case-studies, real or imaginary, in order to grasp this point — which is that deep scientific theories are no more falsifiable than they are verifiable.

http://www.shef.ac.uk/~phil/courses/312/05lakatos.htm

15 posted on 01/21/2004 7:07:02 AM PST by razorback-bert
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