Re: linguistics vs philology

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From: Marc A. Belanger
Date: Fri, 22 Jul 1994 15:15

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 In article <30jqdl$fl@Jester.CC.MsState.Edu>,
 Frank Peters <fwp@CC.MsState.Edu> wrote:
 >Marc A. Belanger <3914MABE@vm1.ulaval.ca> says:
 >>I stand corrected. But would you still say that a science has to make
 >>predictions in order to be considered scientific?
 >
 >Pretty much.
 >
 >In order to be scientific a theory must be falsifiable.  That is, there
 >must be some way of demonstrating that the theory is incorrect (it
 >being practically impossible to demonstrate that a theory is correct).
        [remainder deleted]
 
Would you say that what you advance (and that is what is generally thaught)
is, in itself salsifiable?  (I know this is more of a philosphical query than
anything else.)
                                        - Marc.

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