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It's not clear what you mean or are complaining about. Feel free to provide your own example. Just come up with two empirical claims (A and B) such that you thi
by logicchop 7y ago
It's not clear what you mean or are complaining about. Feel free to provide your own example. Just come up with two empirical claims (A and B) such that you think A contradicts B. It should then be relatively easy to come up with a C that, if C were true, A would no longer contradict B. It's obvious once you start laying things out carefully.
- whatshisface 7y agoHere's a specific example. Claim A: "If nothing is wrong with your experiment or analysis, you will observe that the speed of light in a vacuum is the same in all inertial reference frames up to experimental uncertainty." Claim B: "If nothing is wrong with your experiment or analysis, you will observe that the speed of light in a vacuum is different in every inertial reference frame up to experimental uncertainty." Every experimentalist realizes that their real result is "I didn't make a mistake -> the answer is X," not "the answer is X." That's the correct way to encode an experiment in logic, leaving aside the high sophistication of how "I didn't make a mistake" gets treated in practice.