[cornelis]

Some people hold that testable assumptions are somehow better. This is on account of a preference for certainty with results.

Others recongize that free causality would not be testable as such. Between the two, the second is the health of a civilization and makes politics possible. That is why better is relative. But the denial of one for the other is an exclusion with consequence.

[CarolinaGuitarman]

"Some people hold that testable assumptions are somehow better. This is on account of a preference for certainty with results."

Not just certainty. We can't know ANYTHING if we can't make tests of our assumptions.

"Others recongize that free causality would not be testable as such. Between the two, the second is the health of a civilization and makes politics possible. That is why better is relative. But the denial of one for the other is an exclusion with consequence."


Sorry, my BS alarm just went off. The above paragraph is nonsensical. Science isn't a postmodernist enterprise.