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It is not scientific induction, since you can't measure elegance quantitatively. However scientists have subjective intuition based on the successes and failures of past other physical theories. This is what I meant by "philosophical edge".
You can formally via Kolmogorov complexity.
Doesn't elegance reduce to how elegant scientists feel the theory is? Can't we quantify the opinions of scientists regarding how elegant some theory is? Or if elegance isn't reduce-able that way then isn't the correlation between correctness and elegance really a correlation between correctness and perceived elegance anyway?
What do you mean by subjective intuition? Are you distinguishing it from objective intuition?
I feel like I'm coming off like that jackass Socrates, but everyone seems to be taking loaded, technical terms for granted and applying them sloppily.
Sorry, I just tried to emphasize the subjective nature of intuition.
You can quantify the opinions of scientists to measure elegance, but I don't think it's a good idea: It would just further enforce groupthink at the expense of originality, IMO.