Re: Moorad wrote:
Moorad Alexanian (alexanian@UNCWIL.EDU)
Wed, 21 Oct 1998 14:17:36 -0500 (EST)
At 04:46 PM 10/19/98 -0600, John W Burgeson wrote:
>Moorad wrote:
>
>"I quote from "The Physics of Chance" by Charles Ruhla. On Page 1 Ruhla's
>section 1.1 is titled "Prediction = science." I quote from that section.
>"It
>is often thought that science is an explanation of the world. Though this
>is
>an important feature, it is not the most characteristic: the overriding
>priority in science is prediction."
>
>It is quite obvious that Casti and Ruhla disagree on this. It is probably
>more semantics than anything else. Call Ruhla's view "science1" and
>Casti's view "science2."
>
>If you consider only "science1," then neither evolution nor meteorology
>seems to qualify as science. Which does not seem to be a useful thing to
>do. They still exist and have to be called SOMETHING.
>
> Burgy
>
If we use terms such as political science and social science, who are we not
to call evolutionary theory or meteorology science?
Moorad