Re: strong theories, weak theories, not-even-wrong theories

[John Denker <jsd@MONMOUTH.COM>]

At 10:27 AM 8/23/99 -0500, Timothy Folkerts wrote:
> I agree wholeheartly with the spirit of John's comments.  If a theory needs
> to be adjusted independently  for each circumstance, then it is of no
> particular value to the theory.
>
> That said,  I think that 1b) and 2b) are of some value and that a different
> example might be better.

You're right.  Indeed, if I were doing it over again, I would delete theory
2b from the exposition entirely.

And you're right, the time variable needs to be controlled, lest it add
value to a theory that was meant to be valueless.