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I realize it makes me a pompous ass, but being a pure mathematics student has caused me to recoil whenever anyone quotes a "law" of the soft sciences and uses i

I realize it makes me a pompous ass, but being a pure mathematics student has caused me to recoil whenever anyone quotes a "law" of the soft sciences and uses it as proof. I am quite glad to be in a field where deductive logic is used; these sorts of tirades where its up for debate whether or not what you're saying applies (or was even correct in the first place) don't really happen.

KirinDave 16y ago
Forgive us compsci folks our lack of rigor and correctness here. We're emboldened by the likes of Moore who, through remarkable intuition, created predictions that match the facts with startling accuracy. I agree with you wholeheartedly, though. Calling everything a "law" is a nasty habit that has crept into compsci's pop literature over the last decade.