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<div class="moz-signature">The "<span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif"">citations from Aristotle, Plato,
Ortega, Leibnitz," are a particular type of IF </span>"<span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif""> hypothetic assumptions". They
cannot be falsifiable as the hypothesis of gravitional waves,
but they may be discussed rationnally as starting points for
principles and definitions of information. <br>
<br>
</span>Cordialement.
M. Godron</div>
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Le 06/10/2017 à 18:26, Emanuel Diamant a écrit :<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif"">Dear FISers,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif"">I have heartily welcomed
Pedro’s initiative to work out some principles of
information definition quest. But the upsetting discussion
unrolled around the issue pushes me to restrain my support
for the Pedro’s proposal. The problem (in my understanding)
is that FIS discussants are violating the basic rule of any
scientific discourse – the IF/THEN principle. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif"">We usually start our
discourse with a hypothetic assumption (the IF part of an
argument) which is affirmed later by a supporting evidence
or by a prediction that holds under the given assumptions
(the THEN part of the statement). <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif"">The universality of this
principle was vividly demonstrated by the recent Nobel Prize
for Physics awarding – <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif"">A hundred years ago, Albert
Einstein has predicted the existence of gravitational waves,
but only the construction of the LIGO detector (implementing
the if-then principles) made the observation of
gravitational waves possible. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif"">Information will become
visible and palpable only when an if-then grounded probe (or
an if-then grounded approach) will be devised and put in
use.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif"">Until then – long citations
from Aristotle, Plato, Ortega, Leibnitz, alongside with
extensive self-citations, will not help us to master the
unavoidable if-then way of thinking.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif"">Sincerely yours,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif"">Emanuel. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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