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Problem of induction - for theories that cannot be logically or mathematically proven, and can only be confirmed by empirical evidence, no amount of confirming
by SkyMarshal 14y ago
Problem of induction - for theories that cannot be logically or mathematically proven, and can only be confirmed by empirical evidence, no amount of confirming evidence can prove the theory true, but one single refuting observation can disprove it.
So maybe the study's author only cared about webbit, ws4py, and Snap, and that was the implicit constraint of his test. If so, that's fine, and the submitter mangled the author's intent with an overly-editorialized, senationalized title.
But if the author was actually using webbit, ws4py, and Snap as proxies for all of Java, Python, and Haskell, then no one should be surprised that it gets quickly shot down. There's value in critics debunking BS quickly, even if they don't provide a better alternative. Absence of bad knowledge is better than presence of it.