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Originally Posted by Howard the Duck
isn't it a hypothesise first?
then you start running tests?
if it holds steady empirically, it becomes theory
then when your theory can be put into practice, it becomes a paradigm?
taking into account The Uncertainty Principle
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That's a tested way to do it. It works very well and have advanced mankind technologically and the way we understand the world we live in in a way religion was never able to. Contrary to the understanding held by, say an Indian guru, this sort of understanding could actually be used to do something practically useful, like creating computers. Testing and practical appliance proves the validity of the understanding.
It's the only good method of advancing understanding that I know of.
What is it that proves the validity of the beliefs of a zen monk who has trained his whole life to ignore life - be it hunger, friendship, love - for the sake of some inner understanding? Nothing.
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