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That still amounts to publishing when you can say, "We know it does work" as opposed to "We know why it works".
by eli_gottlieb 11y ago
That still amounts to publishing when you can say, "We know it does work" as opposed to "We know why it works".
- aminorex 11y ago...which is very valuable. After all, we don't know when, if ever, a satisfactory explanation (by what criteria?) will derive. To defer all progress in the field until it should meet the standards of some other field would be a great loss, and might preclude any number of future further discoveries.
- eli_gottlieb 11y agoAs far as I understand the concept of "science", an empirical observation (including "it works from an engineering perspective, kinda") is only ever an observation. Scientific progress, by definition, involves advancing our understanding of hows and whys.