[From Rick Marken (970427.2230 PDT)]
Ellery Lanier (970427.12:33MST)
The Blom exchanges and the 'disturbances' talk, make me feel
like an outsider...All I can do is trash most of the discourse
Why not try asking questions of the participants? That way you
might have some influence over the content of the discourse. I bet
others would be grateful to you for doing this, too.
Reiteration of fundamentals would be a blessing. So till I can
find my way into the engineering mode, my emmiss will be very
limited.
I assure you that you can't ask a dumb question. So ask away. The
answers you get might turn your tsuris to nachus.
Martin Taylor (970427 17:00) --
What you may not agree with is that I don't see this failure
[of MCT] as proof that it [finding a version of MCT that doesn't
fail] couldn't be done.
You probably can find a version of MCT that doesn't fail in a particular
case; but if the model has to be changed, post hoc, to
fit every new set of observations then I think you've got a
problem.
If one actually took what you say here seriously he or she would simply
reject science as an approach to acquiring knowledge. You seem to be
saying that it is impossible to rule out _any_ explanation of a
phenomenon using systematic observation. I think this is post-modernist
crap.
Best
Rick