Do you feel that a field is illegitimate if it requires a large amount of axioms to actually function? What's your cut off point?

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Anonymous Thu Jan 19 15:18:54 2017 No.8614813 [Reply] [Original]

Do you feel that a field is illegitimate if it requires a large amount of axioms to actually function? What's your cut off point?

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 15:19:59 2017 No.8614816 >>8614813 That depends. Are they axioms or are they "axioms" that are really theorems provable from set theory?

Anonymous Thu Jan 19 15:22:30 2017 No.8614828

>>8614813

Mostly I am concerned about predictive power.

Usually, the results produced from fields that require large amounts of axioms to function are not very predictive or generalizable.

I would not call these fields illegitimate. I might use the words useless and uninteresting instead.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 19 15:29:23 2017 No.8614840 >>8614813 It's not a case of either-or, axiomatic systems such as math and language can be as legitimate as empirical studies.

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