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    GIVEN) You understand the relationships between entities in a clearly defined system.

    IF) In a defined system where all involved entities have a clearly defined relationship with all other entities you think one, some, or all of those relationships don't apply to you.

    THEN) Your personal definitions of the entities involved in the system do not coincide with those provided in the explanation of the theory involving those entities.

    OTHERWISE) Shit would line up like it's supposed to. If it doesn't; re-evaluate your understanding of the system and the entities involved therein or re-asses your labeling of the phenomena the theory describes.
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    A tip of my hat to you Joseph.
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    Wrong form of you're.

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    Well-said.

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    Quote Originally Posted by JWC3 View Post
    GIVEN) You understand the relationships between entities in a clearly defined system.

    IF) In a defined system where all involved entities have a clearly defined relationship with all other entities you think one, some, or all of those relationships don't apply to you.

    THEN) Your personal definitions of the entities involved in the system do not coincide with those provided in the explanation of the theory involving those entities.

    OTHERWISE) Shit would line up like it's supposed to. If it doesn't; re-evaluate your understanding of the system and the entities involved therein or re-asses your labeling of the phenomena the theory describes.
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    Pithy.
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    Quote Originally Posted by JWC3 View Post
    GIVEN) You understand the relationships between entities in a clearly defined system.

    IF) In a defined system where all involved entities have a clearly defined relationship with all other entities you think one, some, or all of those relationships don't apply to you.

    THEN) Your personal definitions of the entities involved in the system do not coincide with those provided in the explanation of the theory involving those entities.

    OTHERWISE) Shit would line up like it's supposed to. If it doesn't; re-evaluate your understanding of the system and the entities involved therein or re-asses your labeling of the phenomena the theory describes.
    While logically consistent, this can result in "when theory doesn't match reality, go with theory." A definition system is completely unassailable when there are no redundancies (which could result in inconsistencies) or references to other systems that add redundancies to the overall system (which could result in the system being incorrect relative to those other systems). When a theory attempts to make claims about reality? That theory becomes vulnerable to the criticism that it doesn't match reality.



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    I think it was saying, "when your theoretical ideas don't line up with reality, reevaluate them" – which directly implies "going with reality."
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    Quote Originally Posted by strrrng View Post
    I think it was saying, "when your theoretical ideas don't line up with reality, reevaluate them" – which directly implies "going with reality."
    that's what I thought too.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Brilliand View Post
    While logically consistent, this can result in "when theory doesn't match reality, go with theory." A definition system is completely unassailable when there are no redundancies (which could result in inconsistencies) or references to other systems that add redundancies to the overall system (which could result in the system being incorrect relative to those other systems). When a theory attempts to make claims about reality? That theory becomes vulnerable to the criticism that it doesn't match reality.
    Slightly correct, what I'm saying isn't "When theory doesn't match reality, go with theory." I'm saying "When theory doesn't match reality, check your understanding and application of theory."
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    Scratching the theory is just another way of going with reality; another realignment is basically inevitable, unless the reality at hand simply can't be described theoretically. But, given that socionics is not a fundamentally flawed theory, there's no need to scratch it.
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    Quote Originally Posted by JWC3 View Post
    Slightly correct, what I'm saying isn't "When theory doesn't match reality, go with theory." I'm saying "When theory doesn't match reality, check your understanding and application of theory."
    How do you know which theory is correct? Quantum Mechanics or General Relativity, for instance? For more, go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duhem–Quine_thesis

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    I dig it.

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    Oh god, that. I think most things can be theoretically tested by cultivating the kind of skepticism that asks why we hold even the most basic assumptions vis a vis any particular realm of knowledge. Granted, that leads into a lot of self searching doubt that is rarely productive, but sometimes going after the truth requires that kind of willingness to question and reject even something held as obvious or apparent. On this basis, various theoretical constructs or explanations can be derived and tested (if falsifiable) to see in what ways the empirical results match up with the predictions of theory. This is, like most human endeavors, a gross oversimplification.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Diana View Post
    I think that when theory doesn't match reality, scrap the theory.

    No amount of tweaking, adjusting, re-evaluating, and checking of understanding is going to be able to stretch a bad theory around reality. Your mind is more flexible though, and it'll make even the most bizarrely wrong things fit if you're determined enough.
    ah, Popper; he too preferred to scrap theories rather than adjust them;
    his fatal flaw was to acknowledge that all theories build on the shoulders of earlier theorists
    it is unthinkable to think that any novice in the field could possibly test his innovation against countless past experiments
    in Conjectures and Refutations, Popper once outlined his own 'non-pseudoscientific' theory of personality: dogmatic vs critical types
    I take it you are critical rather than dogmatic? pity, I was hoping to posit all sensors as dogmatic, but perhaps that is more fitting for tactical types instead

    Quote Originally Posted by munenori2 View Post
    Oh god, that. I think most things can be theoretically tested by cultivating the kind of skepticism that asks why we hold even the most basic assumptions vis a vis any particular realm of knowledge. Granted, that leads into a lot of self searching doubt that is rarely productive, but sometimes going after the truth requires that kind of willingness to question and reject even something held as obvious or apparent. On this basis, various theoretical constructs or explanations can be derived and tested (if falsifiable) to see in what ways the empirical results match up with the predictions of theory. This is, like most human endeavors, a gross oversimplification.
    Popper again, and his falsifiability; as for criteria, I tend to follow coherentism rather than foundationalism myself, but in order not become a pyrrhonist I justify reliabilism rather than infallibilism
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    thread title just pissed off all E4s

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    I think this is what was trying to say:

    If someone decides that they are LIE (I choose this type at random) in socionics and redefines the system to fit that typing, that doesn't hold. You can't redefine socionics to fit a type that you have chosen for yourself. Your self-typing is not a reality. It comes from the theory itself so if it doesn't hold with the theory then it simply isn't reality. You can claim the theory is wrong, but not on the basis that your self-typing doesn't fit with the theory because a type is an arbitrary term. In linguistics you call that a signifier. The signifier is arbitrary, the signified is what's important. Socionics is simply a language to describe a certain set of traits in people.

    If you are looking at a chair, you can't call it refrigerator. It may occasionally be cold, in which case it may share something in common with a refrigerator, but it is not, by definition, a refrigerator. A chair has a set definition and a refrigerator has a set definition. If you don't like the names given to those objects, that's nice, but it's completely arbitrary. If you're speaking the English language, those are the names for them. Now, it's possible that you can look at something and mistake it's characteristics with something else, but you can't recreate the entire English language based on that mistake. You can try, but then you're not speaking English anymore. You're making up your own dialect which resembles English but has a completely different meaning.

    In otherwords, stop trying to rewrite the English language. It's just a language. Replace English with socionics at will.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Diana View Post
    I didn't say you need to reinvent the wheel every time, only that sometimes the more you work with something, and try to get it to cover all bases, the less it makes any coherent sense. At those times, it's better to toss out the mess you've made of it, and start fresh. Then you can examine all the pieces you originally accepted as a package deal, and sort out which are good to keep, and which are garbage. And if they're all garbage, then they all go.

    Like building a machine, and it keeps getting more and more complex, so you tack on a fix here, and a fix there, and you're building a bigger monstrosity by the minute. It's better to strip the whole thing down, and find the essentials, make them work first. The machine becomes simpler, more elegant, and better functioning without all the extra junk.

    But yes, I'd rather fit critical than dogmatic, although I've been dogmatic at times as well.
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