Re: The straw man.

Phillip Bigelow (n8010095@cc.wwu.edu)
23 Oct 1995 12:56:02 -0700

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hubey@pegasus.montclair.edu (H. M. Hubey) writes:

>2) Whatever is not false is true until shown to be false.

In science, whatever is UNKNOWN is held to be suspect until proven true,
or until falsified.
Therefore, a theory is not held to be true...it is held suspect.
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