Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030314AbVI3TO0 (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Sep 2005 15:14:26 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030322AbVI3TO0 (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Sep 2005 15:14:26 -0400 Received: from [64.162.99.240] ([64.162.99.240]:4821 "EHLO spamtest2.viacore.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030314AbVI3TOZ (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Sep 2005 15:14:25 -0400 Message-ID: <433D8E22.9060505@spamtest.viacore.net> Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2005 12:12:34 -0700 From: Joe Bob Spamtest User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050923 Fedora/1.7.12-1.5.1 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Marcin Dalecki CC: Linus Torvalds , SCSI Mailing List , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: I request inclusion of SAS Transport Layer and AIC-94xx into the kernel References: <20050929232013.95117.qmail@web31810.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <92154686-787B-4254-B404-482E234B245D@neostrada.pl> In-Reply-To: <92154686-787B-4254-B404-482E234B245D@neostrada.pl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 909 Lines: 22 Marcin Dalecki wrote: > On 2005-09-30, at 02:35, Linus Torvalds wrote: >> A scientific theory is an approximation of observed behaviour WITH NO >> KNOWN HOLES. > > Since "approximation" is equivalent to a "known hole", there is no > single scientific theory without known holes out there?! Well that's a > segfault in brain - unless you don't consider math science of course. > > A scientific theory is just a set of axioms and deduction rules. Not > much more by definition... I think a better explanation of 'scientific theory' is: an explanation or definition of observed behaviour with no known error which, is what I believe Linus was trying to say - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/