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Article #1190Re: ABSOLUTELY TRUE THEORIES
From: Dirk Van de moortel
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2009 16:19
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2009 16:19
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Pentcho Valev <pvalev@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> Philosophers of science have devised strange concepts such as
> verisimilitude (proximity to truth) and pessimistic induction (all
> theories in the past proved partially false so present and future
> theories are partially false as well) which contradict the deductive
> method. Consider Einstein's 1905 light postulate:
>
> http://www.fourmilab.ch/etexts/einstein/specrel/www/ "...light is
> always propagated in empty space with a definite velocity c which is
> independent of the state of motion of the emitting body."
>
> By a theory I shall mean the deductive closure of the postulate, that
> is, the set of all its consequences deduced validly and in the absence
> of false or absurd auxiliary hypotheses. If the light postulate is
> true, then all its consequences are true.
>
> If Einstein's 1905 light postulate is false, then its antithesis, the
> equation c'=c+v given by Newton's emission theory of light, is true.
Imbecile.
Pentcho Valev Doing Deductive Logic
If Einstein's 1905 light postulate is false, then its antithesis, the
equation c'= c*arctan(c/v+0.25) given by Idiot Next Door's
submission theory of light, is true.
Good grief.
Did she drink and did he beat you *that* hard?
Dirk Vdm
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