BrianScurfield comments on Taking Ideas Seriously - Less Wrong

51 Post author: Will_Newsome 13 August 2010 04:50PM

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Comment author: [deleted] 24 August 2010 10:03:03PM 0 points [-]

the natural thing for me to do now would be to challenge you to explain where theories come from in advance of observation

From the problem-situation. Theories arise out of problems.

Comment author: Perplexed 24 August 2010 10:38:10PM 2 points [-]

And where do problems come from in advance of theories and obs...

Never mind. Someone else can carry on. I have other things to attend to.