> I'm not doing some post-modernism or whatever sneaky jab you're throwing in.
Corespondent insists that there are definitions on which different people can agree.
> You're implying that you have some definition of algebra that is truer than mine. But that is all meaningless arguments over words anyway.
Correspondent insists that there aren't definitions on which different people can agree.
When you sort out which position you're taking, post again. :)
> You've also think you know a truer definition of science than me.
There is only one definition of science. Postmodernists, of course, disagree. For a postmodernist, there are as many definitions as there are people to have them.
> I think science today is about collecting data and having computers make predictions, increasingly use black box machine learning.
That is not how science is defined. You've just described how people collect data for the purposes of science, but science is defined by the uses to which data are put, not the data itself.
> I'm inferring that you think it's about theorizing from data and writing out simple equations. I have disagree with you on that ...
Feel free. But you need to realize that there are ideas on which people agree,and science is one of them. Indeed, without agreement about what science means, there can be no science -- science requires consensus about its own meaning, even while inviting disagreement about specific scientific theories.
Corespondent insists that there are definitions on which different people can agree.
> You're implying that you have some definition of algebra that is truer than mine. But that is all meaningless arguments over words anyway.
Correspondent insists that there aren't definitions on which different people can agree.
When you sort out which position you're taking, post again. :)
> You've also think you know a truer definition of science than me.
There is only one definition of science. Postmodernists, of course, disagree. For a postmodernist, there are as many definitions as there are people to have them.
> I think science today is about collecting data and having computers make predictions, increasingly use black box machine learning.
That is not how science is defined. You've just described how people collect data for the purposes of science, but science is defined by the uses to which data are put, not the data itself.
> I'm inferring that you think it's about theorizing from data and writing out simple equations. I have disagree with you on that ...
Feel free. But you need to realize that there are ideas on which people agree,and science is one of them. Indeed, without agreement about what science means, there can be no science -- science requires consensus about its own meaning, even while inviting disagreement about specific scientific theories.