Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id KAA27834 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk); Fri, 13 Apr 2001 10:56:50 +0100 Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2001 09:54:50 +0100 To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk Subject: Re: Is Suicide Contagious? A Case Study in Applied Memetics Message-ID: <20010413095450.A1309@reborntechnology.co.uk> References: <F176z1enAqpfkNsjUHQ00005fab@hotmail.com> <00ba01c0c373$33e0cdc0$5eaefea9@rcn.com> <016d01c0c375$7d878fc0$235c2a42@jrmolloy> <20010412195116.C1393@reborntechnology.co.uk> <038f01c0c3a4$16fb6180$235c2a42@jrmolloy> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.15i In-Reply-To: <038f01c0c3a4$16fb6180$235c2a42@jrmolloy>; from jr@shasta.com on Thu, Apr 12, 2001 at 03:57:54PM -0700 From: Robin Faichney <robin@reborntechnology.co.uk> Sender: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
On Thu, Apr 12, 2001 at 03:57:54PM -0700, J. R. Molloy wrote:
> > In what sense is either philosophy or analog computing an hypothesis?
> >
> Thanks for asking, Robin.
>
> "Philosophy" is an hypothesis in the sense that it does something other than
> ask the wrong questions.
I'll let Joe deal with that one.
> "Analog computing" is an hypothesis in the dictionary sense.
So analog computing is a proposal intended to explain certain facts
or observations?
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