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So what is pynthantics?
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Jun 5, 2025
Discussion of the science of inquiry and a name for it. See http://pynthan.org
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sowhat is peeing tactics have you ever
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noticed that some questions are better
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than others yes better questions seem to
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bring better answers so what makes a
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question better than another a better
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question makes it easier to find an
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answer can a question have no answer a
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question with no answer is not a very
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good question unless it is to make a
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point that it has no answer so what
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basically is a question it's a request
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for information any information no it
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puts limits on the information being
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requested so does the question also
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provide information yes but not in the
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form of the answer wanted does the
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question provide all the information
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needed to find the answer yes if it's a
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good question it will be for a fairly
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specific information so doesn't a good
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question provide the information needed
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to define the answers just not in the
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most useful form yes the question may
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either contain all the information but
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in a less useful form or define a system
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from which one can extract the
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information in a useful form so is there
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a scientific discipline that
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investigates how to find the best
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questions and builds models that can be
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used to do so hmm
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well I guess all science does that but
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for specialized subjects are you
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speaking of scientific method yes but I
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can think of a single name of a field of
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science that makes scientific method and
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discovery itself the field of
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investigation there is epistemology but
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that is a branch of philosophy
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scientific method seems to be more of an
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art in each of the scientific
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disciplines than a science unto itself
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so can there be a science of scientific
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method that can develop theoretical
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models that would apply to the method
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used in any field
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I suppose so a good theory should allow
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researchers to make discoveries more
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efficiently in any field so is it not
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the natural next step to convert a
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branch of philosophy or an art into a
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science of inquiry yes it might enable
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more scientific and engineering
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discoveries to be made faster into the
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lower cost have you noticed it in
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several scientific fields
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searchers are coming up with the same
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discoveries independently at about the
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same time yes especially in the hard
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sciences like physics they complain
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about being in a race in which days or
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even hours make a difference has it
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occurred to you that they might be able
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to automate their process of scientific
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discovery
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well I suppose artificial intelligence
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will eventually be able to replace
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scientists and engineers but that would
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seem to be a difficult problem is that
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as difficult as developing artificial
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intelligence that can enable a machine
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to live among humans and be accepted as
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one of them no I guess not
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but are we really close to being able to
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automate scientific discovery did you
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know that some automated scientific
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discovery is already taking place in
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specialized fields Wow
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that is interesting do they have general
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theories about how to do that yet do you
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think it would help to give the field a
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good name yes it would help with funding
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and collaboration did you know Pinton is
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the greek word for to pose a question
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and perhaps get an answer so that's how
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you get paint an --tx I couldn't think
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of another name and that is the best
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name I've heard have you noticed that
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everything I've been saying has been a
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question
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