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This article is about the 'inductive fallacy,' more or less. Karl Popper wrote a long work (The Logic of Scientific Discovery) on the scientific method, puttin
by Perceval 17y ago
This article is about the 'inductive fallacy,' more or less. Karl Popper wrote a long work (The Logic of Scientific Discovery) on the scientific method, putting forward the criterion of falsifiability as an alternative to the positivist approach of model-building.
- fburnaby 17y agoI have gotten into doing this sort of work (the scientific computer modeling part, not the "cargo-cult" interpretations thereof). Popper was the first person I went back to reread when I got into it. This is very important to understand (and so simple). However, I disagree with the author that this type of work could be dispensable. You have to test your theories in order for them to be scientific, but you have to know exactly what experimental results your theories predict. These complex systems are too important to stop studying, and they're too complex to use "simpler" methods.