On 5 maio, 11:35, Tom Roberts wrote:
Nowhere is science related to making claims about the world and then
expecting Nature to obey those claims. That is whatVanFlandernis
trying to do, and that simply is not science. shrug

TomRoberts

I disagree. Deductive reasoning is applied very often in Science,
simply
because a set of observations, in most of the cases, does not have
a unique solution, i.e., there is not a unique model that explains it.
Therefore,
to expect that inductive reasoning alone will always lead to a correct
interpretation
is a mistake. That's why a set of starting premises ("claims about the
world")
and constraints are often attached in most of data analysis.