Thanks. I don’t know either. That’s why I don’t come here that often. The karma points system doesn’t serve the aims of science. It serves the “scientific consensus” myth which is mostly a glorified popularity contest without regard for fallibilism, iteration, paradigm shifting and counterinduction.
Relevant: -Anything by David Hume -Carl G. Hempel. Laws and Their Role in Scientific Explanation: http://www.scribd.com/doc/19536968/Carl-G-Hempel-Laws-and-Their-Role-in-Scientific-Explanation -Studies in the Logic of Explanation: http://www.sfu.ca/~jillmc/Hempel%20and%20Oppenheim.pdf -Causation as Folk Science: http://www.pitt.edu/~jdnorton/papers/003004.pdf -Causation: The elusive grail of epidemiology: http://link.springer.com/article/10.1023%2FA%3A1009970730507 -Causality and the Interpretation of Epidemiologic Evidence: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1513293/ -Studies in the Philosophy of Biology: Reduction and Related Problems: http://books.google.com/books?id=NMAf65cDmAQC&pg=PA3#v=onepage&q&f=false
I don’t understand why you’re getting downvoted. Those were great links, and indeed relevant. I appreciated them.
Thanks. I don’t know either. That’s why I don’t come here that often. The karma points system doesn’t serve the aims of science. It serves the “scientific consensus” myth which is mostly a glorified popularity contest without regard for fallibilism, iteration, paradigm shifting and counterinduction.