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To: Sherman Logan
Theoretical and purely speculative.
65 posted on 09/11/2013 5:05:47 PM PDT by Fungi
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To: Fungi

Agreed. That’s why I used a question mark.

Theory and speculation is sometimes interesting. And it is almost always the first step in arriving at Truth.

For instance, speculation is the first step in the scientific method. Or sometimes the second.

You can generate a hypothesis and then try to devise an experiment to disprove it.

Or you can assemble a bunch of facts and try to devise a theory that explains them, and then try to disprove your theory.

In any case, speculating is most important.

Just as long as one is aware that’s all it is.


67 posted on 09/11/2013 5:09:40 PM PDT by Sherman Logan (Mark Steyn: "In the Middle East, the enemy of our enemy is also our enemy.")
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