3 ms·
> If you read the modern scientific literature on research, the rabbit hole goes vastly deeper. On indeed. Heisenberg used to say, "data does not imply theory
by einhverfr 13y ago
> If you read the modern scientific literature on research, the rabbit hole goes vastly deeper.
On indeed. Heisenberg used to say, "data does not imply theory."[1] Once you deeply internalize that, you realize you can't really be that, ahem, certain about anything in scientific thought outside of the limited domain of how scientific truth is defined (namely that the model has predictive value, which is entirely different from whether it has ontological value).
[1] http://archive.org/details/PhysicsPhilosophy http://archive.org/details/PhysicsPhilosophy
- skylan_q 13y agoTry telling that to economists who claim to discover macroeconomic theories through econometric models and call it "empirical"