Alan_Gunn comments on Friedman's "Prediction vs. Explanation" - Less Wrong
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The short answer is, "it depends." For all we can tell from the statement of the problem, the second "theory" could be "I prayed for divine revelation of the answers and got these 20." Or it could be special relativity in 1905. So I don't think this "puzzle" poses a real question.