No, it actually looks (just barely) feasible to get a FOOM out of something ad-hoc, and there are even good reasons for expecting that. But it doesn’t seem to be on the way towards deeper understanding. The best to hope for is catching it right when the FOOMing is imminent and starting to do serious theory, but the path of blind experimentation doesn’t seem to be the most optimal one even towards blind FOOM.
I didn’t mean to imply it was an invalid motive, merely a potential underlying motive. If it is valid in the sense that you mean (and I think it is), that’s just reason to scrutinize such claims even more closely.
No, it actually looks (just barely) feasible to get a FOOM out of something ad-hoc, and there are even good reasons for expecting that. But it doesn’t seem to be on the way towards deeper understanding. The best to hope for is catching it right when the FOOMing is imminent and starting to do serious theory, but the path of blind experimentation doesn’t seem to be the most optimal one even towards blind FOOM.
That doesn’t contradict what logi said. It could still be a motive.
It could, but it won’t be invalid motive, as I (maybe incorrectly) heard implied.
I didn’t mean to imply it was an invalid motive, merely a potential underlying motive. If it is valid in the sense that you mean (and I think it is), that’s just reason to scrutinize such claims even more closely.