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May 12, 2009 23:58

Famously, something that often frustrates people in political discussions is the fact that such discussion can have a tendency to end up being much more like supporting one's favourite hockey team than a dispassionate inquiry into the best way for a government to operate, i.e., people care less about what their favoured party does than they care ( Read more... )

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_rck_ May 14 2009, 04:00:47 UTC
Thanks for the Duhem-Quine link, I only knew of Quine's involvement in this theory, and I always thought that Saul Kripke was the one who pointed out that any theory could be accommodated to the data, since there was an infinite number of functions traversing the finite number of points.

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