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Explanations in turn are tools whose only purpose is to make predictions.
by HappMacDonald 1y ago
Explanations in turn are tools whose only purpose is to make predictions.
- jltsiren 1y agoExplanations are also useful, because people often find them interesting. Some things are valuable, because they keep us alive and healthy in the short term. Some things are valuable, because we find them interesting, enjoyable, or something like that. And some things are indirectly valuable, because they enable other things that are more directly valuable.
- dtj1123 1y agoThis is an inaccurate statement. Geocentrism makes identical predictions to heliocentrism, but clearly the two models offer differing explanations of the dynamics of the solar system. From an engineering perspective, yes, predictions are all that you care about. From a scientific perspective, the end goal is the simplest and most general set of explanations possible.
- suddenlybananas 1y agoIn fact, geocentric models made better predictions than early heliocentric ones because epicycles allowed a better fit to the data.