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S 19 hours ago history edited Tom Kist CC BY-SA 4.0
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yesterday comment added Scott Rowe Even a stopped clock is right twice a day. Well, unless it is electronic, then it is probaby never actually right.
yesterday comment added Tom Kist I'm looking for what a reasonable person would consider a good explanation. I am not looking for logical fallacies. Bad logic -> Prediction that is right more than 1/2 the time, is not a good explanation in my opinion.
yesterday comment added Tom Kist Yes this question is like philosophy.stackexchange.com/questions/101448/… but it specifically about: what forms do good explanations take?
yesterday comment added Tom Kist General Relativity is "closer" to what gravity actually IS: the curvature of space-time, of course there is the question "what is space-time?" but Newton's laws are still incredibly useful. So I'm not looking for ultimate truths, just more insight into how something works and that insight must make my predictions better.
yesterday comment added Wastrel Is the question also asking about logical fallacies? There are many of them, and ordinary humans use them in decision-making to make "reasonably accurate predictions", at least reasonable to them.
yesterday comment added Bumble An answer to a similar question here
yesterday comment added Scott Rowe Right, a programmer who understands the programming level but doesn't know details of electronics beats one who can't program well but knows how it works diwn to the transistor level. But I would bet the second one would pass the first one eventually. Mmm, coffee...
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2 days ago comment added FlatterMann Gravity "is" what keeps us on the floor and what causes things to fall to the ground. It "is" what keeps planets in orbit. In science we identify things and effects by their properties. We aren't looking for any "deeper explanations". Why? Because philosophers have been trying to do that for 2500 years without any success. The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results, in other words it's just a waste of time.
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2 days ago comment added keshlam For many tasks, the explanation system humans use is "someone I trust said it, and/or it seems to tally with my own observations (or at least not be refuted by them), so I will accept it as provisionally true." Relying entirely on direct empiricism and logic just doesn't produce results fast enough for animal survival.
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