[MD] Alternatives to the scientific method

[David M]

Hi SA

Behaviour is rarely law like, rather sometimes
you get one outcome, sometimes another. To
create a controlled situation where a specific outcome
happens most of the time takes a lot of setting up
of controlled experiments. Outside of the lab,
and generally not even in the lab outcomes vary.
Or take technology, a machine does a certain job,
it is consistent for a while, perhaps not always,
and in the end 'breaks down' which means it reverts to
the normality of unpredictable behaviour.

DM

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Heather Perella" <spiritualadirondack at yahoo.com>
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Sent: Sunday, August 19, 2007 12:19 AM
Subject: Re: [MD] Alternatives to the scientific method


>
>     [DM]
>> Yes, but its propensities not laws, that's my point.
>
>
>     Laws are universal, right?  If so, then I
> understand Newtonian physics are not law.  They are
> laws on that particular macro-level, but not
> scientific laws, if scientific laws must be universal.
> What do you mean by propensities?  I can guess you
> mean propensities are laws on a particular level, but
> I'd rather you say what they mean, for I'm not sure.
>
>
> SA
>
>
>
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