Scientific beliefs

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From: KFL
Date: Sat, 15 Nov 1986 01:08

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From:  "Keith F. Lynch" <KFL@MX.LCS.MIT.EDU>

    From: rutgers!princeton!mind!harnad@Seismo.arpa (Stevan Harnad)

    > All scientific beliefs are in principle falsifiable by experiment.

    For example, I suppose, the scientific belief that all scientific
    beliefs are in principle falsifiable by experiment...

  That is not a scientific belief, but a definition.
								...Keith

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