Re: WAS-- Re: Hanson 2006, Mortimer, Baeker response

[Phil Bigelow <bigelowp@juno.com>]

"Andreas Johansson" <andreasj@gmail.com> writes:

> >  The axioms, themselves, are based on earlier real-world
> > observations.

> Not necessarily.


I noticed that you didn't say "never".
You have this wonderful ability to under-elaborate on your responses. 
;-)  Give us an example of an axiom that is based on earlier real-world
observations.


> > What, exactly, is this mental process?
> > Why should it be considered
> > different from a part of the scientific
> > method?

> It doesn't exist, for a start.

Huh?
The next thing you will tell us is that axioms existed before the Big
Bang.

<pb> (I'm being punked, aren't I?)  ;-)
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