TheOtherDave comments on The Dilemma: Science or Bayes? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: TheOtherDave 18 April 2013 03:25:13AM 0 points [-]

On your view, is there such a thing as a Nature against which models can be tested and which arbitrates among them?

Comment author: shminux 18 April 2013 04:05:30AM *  0 points [-]

Not mathematical models... These can be motivated by experiment, but they are not bound to make accurate predictions. If that's what you were asking...

Comment author: PrawnOfFate 19 April 2013 11:59:10PM -2 points [-]

Mathematical theories and constructs aren't bound by nature...but models? Models are there to model something, surely?