Grand Unified Theory

Jeff Wilson · 03 Sep 2010, 23:46 · from 2010-September.txt.gz

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From: jwilson at io.com (Jeff Wilson)
Date: Fri, 03 Sep 2010 18:46:57 -0500
Subject: (urth) Grand Unified Theory
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On 9/3/2010 2:05 PM, Lee Berman wrote:
> Now there is as good an example of a "pot meet kettle" moment as you'll find
> around here. If I am guilty of scouring the tree for the sweet red cherries,
> Roy C. Lackey is at least my equal in choosing only to comment on what he
> considers sour, rotten cherries.

That is not how technical criticism works. By touting your hypothesis as 
a theory, you are implicitly declaring that it has the requisite 
axiomatic, logical, and empirical support necessary to become an 
accepted part of the body of thought on the relevant subject. A person 
who disagrees with you need only produce minimal contradictory evidence 
to consign your idea to the proper station among hypotheses, 
conjectures, and assertions, whichever that may be.

-- 
Jeff Wilson - jwilson at io.com
Computational Intelligence Laboratory - Texas A&M Texarkana
< http://www.tamut.edu/CIL >

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