Re: Heterodoxers are crackpots

["Dr. Bruce McFarling" <ecbm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

"John M. Legge" <jlegge@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote,
On Fri, 30 Aug 2002 11:45:49 +1000,

> Fundamental uncertainty in my definition requires that an event

> is not merely unpredicted but inexplicable in hindsight.

So in your definition fundamental uncertainty is not,

fundamentally, about uncertainty before the event,
but inexplicability after the event.

Why don't you just call it fundamental inexplicability,
and avoid all sorts of purely semantic arguments with
people who use the term "uncertainty" to refer to
uncertainty?  I can use the term housecat to mean
hyena, and engage in all sorts of argument about the
behaviour of housecats on the [housecat] mailing list,
but I fail to see the point of the exercise.