(January 27, 2022 at 11:28 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:(January 27, 2022 at 8:35 am)FlatAssembler Wrote: You should only state what you are most certain is true in your thesis, right? I am far more certain *karr~kurr meant "to flow" in Illyrian than that Vukovar Massacre did not occur.
Actually, wrongness - not certainty - is the essence of science. It is by winnowing out wrong explanations that we arrive at the correct ones.
‘What are you doing?’
‘Science. I had an idea that turned out to be wrong.’
‘That’s a lot of charts and graphs.’
‘That’s because I was very wrong.’
‘What’s this paper here?’
‘My thesis. It’s a monument to my wrongness.’
Boru
A lot of science works that way, but I am quite sure theses do not. In a thesis, you should only state what you think you have discovered, not what you were wrong (or are not sure) about.
