[MD] A problem with the MOQ.

118 ununoctiums at gmail.com
Fri Apr 20 21:59:56 PDT 2012


Hi Craig,
Yes you are right couldn't care less.  My mistake, but the rest stands.

Thanks for the correction in my grammar.  I liked your example.

Sent laboriously from an iPhone,
Mark

On Apr 20, 2012, at 4:27 PM, craigerb at comcast.net wrote:

> [Mark (as an empirical scientist)]
>> Data has no pattern until it is subjected to a theory.  It is the
>> theory which provides the pattern...the data is completely neutral
>> and could care less about the theory.
> 
> Quite the opposite...the data couldn't care less about the theory.
> Your science lesson was bereft of examples, so let's consider one:
> snow-flake formation.
> Under certain weather conditions, water particles crystalize
> into a six-armed pattern (no 2 alike.)  We may come up with ever more
> sophisticated and successful theories about why they do this,
> but the water particles couldn't care less about our theories,
> they form their patterns despite us. 
> Craig
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