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Comment author: shminux 07 November 2013 09:32:33PM 0 points [-]

So one would expect the more interesting truths still open to question to be concentrated along the spectrum of harder or very hard to prove.

Indeed. But reframing and carving testables from untestables and provables from unprovables should be an explicit goal.

Comment author: mwengler 07 November 2013 10:08:53PM 1 point [-]

Indeed. But reframing and carving testables from untestables and provables from unprovables should be an explicit goal.

OK. And so should a theoretical exploration of the space of hypotheses about the not-yet provables with the intent of getting the most truth for the buck when these expensive experiments are finally done.

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