Okay - well if you would grant me the generosity of assuming a little common sense in my perspective - any reasonable engineer would perform all possible testin

Okay - well if you would grant me the generosity of assuming a little common sense in my perspective - any reasonable engineer would perform all possible testing in the building phase of a project. The point remains - in the real world there be a zillion variables that your tests almost certainly won't account for. I agree that there is room for a priori pontification - at the hypothesis formation stage of theory building, but that's about it. Except folks like denniger aren't forming hypotheses that can be tested at all. He's just waxing lyrical - tensing his ideological bow.