22-04-2021, 01:05 PM
(22-04-2021, 09:10 AM)ReneZ wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.There is also a clear logic that says that all of them are false, as long as they are all based on the same approach.
That's not true. If a theory is that a given plant on a given page of the manuscript is the same as a plant selected at random from a very large book of plants then it is possible that one is true and others are false even if they are reached at by the same method.
This is a simple refutation.
More generally this is also true as how ever much evidence supports a given theory (outside the field of mathematics itself) there is always a probability that it is false. So if one considers the example of a genetic algorithm this is a much better method of problem solving than a purely random selection approach. It has some random element to it and therefore can arrive at different solutions to a problem where only one is correct, for example like trying to find the optimal solution to a travelling salesman problem. The same applies to many other intelligent problem solving approaches. I think it also applies to a lot of human reasoning as it relies on random occurrences or random observations pushing a theory down one road or another.