You’ve misunderstood my emphasis. I’m an engineer—I don’t insist on correctness. In each case I’ve picked above, the emphasis is on a deeper understanding (a continuous quantity, not a binary variable), not on truth per se. (I mention correctness in the Coriolis example, but even there I have Newtonian mechanics in mind, so that usage was not particularly accurate.)
My key perspective can be found in the third paragraph of this comment.
I’m all for control theory as a basis for forming hypotheses and for Seth Roberts-style self-experimentation.
You’ve misunderstood my emphasis. I’m an engineer—I don’t insist on correctness. In each case I’ve picked above, the emphasis is on a deeper understanding (a continuous quantity, not a binary variable), not on truth per se. (I mention correctness in the Coriolis example, but even there I have Newtonian mechanics in mind, so that usage was not particularly accurate.)
My key perspective can be found in the third paragraph of this comment.
I’m all for control theory as a basis for forming hypotheses and for Seth Roberts-style self-experimentation.