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To: c0rbin
Science is based on observation, testing, and replication to secure the strength of results.

Therefore, that which is not susceptible to this procedure does not exist?

611 posted on 02/19/2003 6:24:40 AM PST by betty boop
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To: betty boop
Therefore, that which is not susceptible to this procedure [observation, testing, and replication] does not exist?

Come on, BB. Hardly anyone would make that claim. Well, maybe some hard-core devotee of "materialism" or something. But from the scientific point of view -- which is not congruent with philosophical materialsm -- items which can't be observed or tested simply aren't subjects for scientific investigation. Which is a whole lot different from saying that such things don't exist.

612 posted on 02/19/2003 6:52:34 AM PST by PatrickHenry (Felix, qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas)
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