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I don't know if this is useful or not, but what you said reminded me of the difference between a married couple getting an annulment...

In Shannon entropy, H(X) is the uncertainty of the message X. That is, how much more you will know, once you receive X and decode it...

My training and career was in medicine. If valid means a correct and accurate and explanation, then the answer is no. Example: For about...

Sigh. How do you think you can have a fruitful conversation with another human if the main subject of the sentence does not have shared...

The criteria for a scientific theory and scientific validity have changed over time. If you buy a train ticket for a journey today, it...

That's not a well-defined question until you define what you mean by 'valid' in this context. If it satisfies the criteria for a...

Thank you - I may just be visiting, I'm not sure how much time I'll have. The last course I mentioned on here was the Philosophy of...

Lucretius describes spontaneous generation incl single bones or leaves, in explaining fossils. A widely accepted folk belief is not a...

Yes, it was apparently taken as '(proto)scientific' fact even before the Ancient Greeks. Although a form of hypothesis testing was...

I kinda doubt it ever was a theory. More like a folk belief.

That's the cause, I spoke of effect.

I like it! :oldthumbsup:

Correct. Mike Tyson was the heavyweight boxing champion. He isn't now. Spontaneous generation was a scientific theory. It isn't now -...

More a lack of attention and/or effort ;-)

Don't forget the Law of Holes ;)