Word: predictioneer
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Hence the hundreds of studies of clouds and sky and rain squalls, the sifting of light down on Hampstead Heath, the endless particularations (never meant to be exhibited as final pictures) of small divisions of time, no two of which were the same. And hence, above all, the quality of...
Harvard's decision was more than just a good prediction; the University has been involved with professional teams in the past. The Patriots played at Harvard for a year in the seventies while waiting for the completion of Schaefer, and the Celtics even entertained the idea of building an arena...
By breaking down a system into smaller, more easily solved physics problems, the proponents of determinism expected--in theory, anyway--that they could solve all of those equations and figure out what is going to happen next. Popper squarely attacks this view. First, he says we cannot know any initial...
Popper amplifies his position with numerous other arguments. Foremost of these is the famous "three-body problem" of classical physics: No exact solution exists for the equations describing the motion of systems which contain three or more particles--even if the initial conditions can be known exactly, our prediction must...
I was deeply disturbed by Thomas Rozinski's letter (2/22/83) in which he opposed the compensation by Harvard of students who lose federal aid because they refuse to register for the draft. Mr. Rozinski's principal objection seemed to be that he would either pay more tuition or receive less...