SYSTEM OF POSTULATES

@Bannebie Number 2 isn't actually the case

Postulate means TO ASSUME

ASSUME means to PRETEND

In a simplified way, you pick the _best_ model with the most evidence and ability to predict (which is what testability is)

PRETEND means to make BELIEVE

So a system of postulates is a system of beliefs which means RELIGION

the GLOBE RELIGION

Sorry I'm not a member of your athiestic GLOBE RELIGION

I believe in SCIENCE

lol when you try to disprove religion using a dictionary 😂😂

You don't even understand what MODEL means

MODEL=RELIGION

Occam's razor, by the way, is not generally applicable to things like this

@Fading In the case where a model has suffient evidence to be proven, yes. But in this case one model has a ton of assumptions to be made for it to work, while the other one can be clearly observed without the need of assumptions. So in this case you can definitely use occam's razor to reduce it and say that the more simple explanation is *most likely* the true one.

Which doesn't mean that it's *definitely* the true one

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@Bannebie No I mean, Occam's razor doesn't mean anything in the case of talking about hypotheses. Simplicity is not an indication of anything

Aristotlian debate is futile in the realm of science. Experimentation is key.

Occam's Razor is constantly used in foolish ways

Simplicity is an indication of what's more likely to be true when confronted with having to choose between a system that relies on multiple assumptions and one that doesn't rely on them.

The original intention was the serve as a guide to which hypothesis to test because it will be the easiest _to test_

It's simply a way to determine what's *more likely* to be true

Okay but in the case of an orbit, what alternative system requiring less assumptions do you mean?

The one that we can observe, motes of light moving in the sky

@Bannebie It's not really. It's no system, just what I feel to be more true.

That's an observation

Not a system

@Fading direct measurement

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Alright, @Bannebie has been warned for '**Bad word usage**'.

@Human Sheeple The accuracy of that instrument is completely inappropriate for the scale we're talking about

That's what I meant, I think my wording was just inadequate

@Bannebie Okay, but then you've said nothing? Science is attempting to answer _why_ and orbits are a model that has been proposed and then repeatedly, exhaustedly verified

@Fading Well feel free to measure it yourself, here go to Ali Baba I even took the trouble to fill out the order form for you