steven comments on Friedman's "Prediction vs. Explanation" - Less Wrong

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Comment author: steven 29 September 2008 10:43:00PM 0 points [-]

Peter de Blanc got it right, IMHO. I don't agree with any of the answers that involve inference about the theorists themselves; they each did only one thing, so it is not the case that you can take one thing they did as evidence for the nature of some other thing they did.