It’s not just economics 6 Aug 2009 “The real world is a special case.” Horngren’s Observation Philosophy Quotes Quotes
Epistemology Classic quotes: Hume 30 Sep 2010 You propose then, Philo, said Cleanthes, to erect religious faith on philosophical scepticism; and you think, that if certainty or evidence be expelled from every other subject of enquiry, it will all retire to these theological doctrines, and there acquire a superior force and authority. Whether your scepticism be as… Read More
Philosophy In which I upset PZ, again, by not knowing 29 Jun 2010 Ron Rosenbaum has written a piece in Slate on agnosticism, in which he generously quotes an Australian “scientist”, that is, me. Oh dear. This is going to set the cat among the pigeons. And indeed one such cat, my friend and sparring partner PZ Myers, has already responded. Read and… Read More
Philosophy Veerryyy interesting, but so sad 17 Sep 2009 Another icon from my youth, Henry Gibson, has died. *sigh* If there is a heaven, I hope he gets a good audience for his poems. Read More
All right, I’ll ask the obvious question – How does he know? how many other worlds did he live in? (OK, two obvious questions)
Pretty obvious. Any theoretical model one can set up has an indefinite number of values each parameter can take. It follows that each coordinate is a special case of the model. The world is therefore (since it must be represented by a coordinate if the model is adequate) a special case.