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Philosophically speaking, he is defining the term "prediction" right out of existence! It's not that "real" predictions are "right" in some sense, even probabi
by dgreensp 14y ago
Philosophically speaking, he is defining the term "prediction" right out of existence! It's not that "real" predictions are "right" in some sense, even probabilistically. There is only ever such thing as one take on the future based on certain data from a certain perspective.
- msellout 14y agoRight. He's critiquing the term "predictive model" by saying we should use the term "hypothetical model" instead. Is he suggesting it's impossible to test a hypothesis? I thought Kant and Hume had this argument long ago.