On Sep 10, 2007, at 6:41 AM, George Murphy wrote:
>
> There is some point in talking about "historical sciences," though
> for geology & astronomy it might be better to say "natural
> historical sciences." But the notion that there is some
> fundamental difference between them and other natural sciences is
> spurious.
>
Moreover, the distinction being discussed is decreasing with time.
For example, the search for the Higgs boson could rightly be called
experimental cosmology. The direction of time is also artificial for
the purpose of falsification as a hindcast can falsify just as much
as a forecast.
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Received on Mon Sep 10 09:50:17 2007
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