You can't prove anything

1. You can't prove a negative truth

2. All truths are either positive or negative

3. Any positive truth is just a double negative truth

Therefore 4. Proving anything is impossible

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  • edited 2015-09-13 16:13:29
    imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    RIP the sciences

    c. 6th century BC - 2015-09-13 at 17:02:16 (BST)
  • Sup bitches, witches, Haters, and trolls.
    Tachyon said:

    RIP the sciences

    c. 6th century BC - 2015-09-13 at 17:02:16

    nah, you don't prove anything in the sciences anyways, you just get enough evidence that the alternatives are as good as falsified

    but now math is actually a science apparently :P
  • imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    i see math described as a science sometimes

    i suppose it depends on your definition, i realize it's quite different from the physical sciences
  • I can see Maths being a science.

    Psychology, on the other hand...
  • imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    i don't see how it's not one

    i mean yeah psychology is a broad field, on the one end you have neuropsychology which is clearly biology, on the other you have philosophy of mind, Fodor and Dennett and that

    it's still a scientific field in the same sense that all the social sciences are

    now if you'd said psychoanalysis you'd have gotten no argument from me, but that's a different matter
  • Sup bitches, witches, Haters, and trolls.
    Personally, as a mathematician I don't really consider math to be a science because while there are exploratory aspects to the field that at least resemble the sciences (albeit at a much lower budget than, say, anything @Klinotaxis is doing), the things that actually gets published most of the time are proofs, which really only show up in the sciences when they're actually doing a mathematical model.

    Spoiler:
    Also, I think Tools was making a joke about the quality of output in psychology
  • imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    i figured, i just kinda bristled because psychology is interesting to me

    sorry Tools
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    Pretty bold statement

    Can you prove it?
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    Calica said:

    Personally, as a mathematician I don't really consider math to be a science because while there are exploratory aspects to the field that at least resemble the sciences (albeit at a much lower budget than, say, anything @Klinotaxis is doing), the things that actually gets published most of the time are proofs, which really only show up in the sciences when they're actually doing a mathematical model.

    Spoiler:
    Also, I think Tools was making a joke about the quality of output in psychology
    look, it's not my fault rats are more expensive to maintain than mathematicians. you need nutrients other than caffeine
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  • Odradek said:

    SUBSIDIZED HOBBYISM

    as my grandpa always said: if you make your work your hobby, every day is a vacation

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  • Sup bitches, witches, Haters, and trolls.
    Odradek said:

    SUBSIDIZED HOBBYISM

    the catch is that i have to teach calculus to future engineers and worse, future doctors
  • my mom paid for part of college teaching statistics to future social workers
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    naney said:

    Odradek said:

    SUBSIDIZED HOBBYISM

    as my grandpa always said: if you make your work your hobby, every day is a vacation

    apparently he designed the machine that puts scotch tape on the rolls
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