Message from @Hamburger Guy
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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 ππ
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
God what happened
@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
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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@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
@Human Sheeple it reads the same when you put it on a basketball
@Hamburger Guy No it doesn't!