I am sick of people calling things science that are not. How about this for a definition of science
A statement is called a scientific fact iif
1. It it proven using the scientific method.
or
2. It is proven from scientific facts using first order predicate logic.
Science is the set of all scientific facts.
Friday, May 22, 2020
statement with may in them
Any statement with may means the probability of event X is greater than zero and less that one. So the converse statement is also true. For example, this headline
"Nearly Half of Twitter Accounts Pushing To Reopen America May Be Bots"
can be also written as
"Nearly Half of Twitter Accounts Pushing To Reopen America May Not Be Bots"
So both statements can be true at the same time. This is backed up by math.
We know from probability theory that for all events E
p(E) + p(~E) = 1.0
The first headline means 0 < P(E) < 1.0. From these two facts we can deduce in FOPL that
0 < P(~E) < 1.0.
That is what the second second means logically. QED
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