The aim of the paper is to put some criticism into the multiverse idea. Such a criticism is especially necessary when the considered topic evades empirical control. We critically asses some “recipes” to produce “other universes”. Some of them seem to be in contrast with the claim that the final theory of physics should be “rigid” in the sense that any perturbation of its parameters or values of...

Cuxac’s Model predicts that each sign of the LSF lexicon is a combination of morphemic rather than phonemic values. This paper exposes the theoretical principles and conditions of falsifiability we propose to constitute an inventory of morphemic values, their assignation to the parametric components and, in fine, to establish which role is played by the different kinds of constraints exerted on...

The goal of General Spatial Intelligence is to present a unified theory to support the various aspects of spatial experience, whether physical or cognitive. We acknowledge the fact that GIScience has to assume a particular worldview, resulting from specific positions regarding metaphysics, ontology, epistemology, mind, language, cognition and representation. Implicit positions regarding these d...

It has been suggested that the enterprise of developing mechanistic theories of the human cognitive architecture is flawed because the theories produced are not directly falsifiable. Newell attempted to sidestep this criticism by arguing for a Lakatosian model of scientific progress in which cognitive architectures should be understood as theories that develop over time. However, Newell's own c...

In recent years, many data centers and research groups provide data on geophysical fluids such as the atmosphere and oceans through the Internet along with on-line visualization. However, their services are not available once data files are downloaded. This paper presents opensource software named Gfdnavi developed to reduce the limitation and to support data handling beyond initial “quick-look...

By drawing on an empiricist tradition, and on the literature discussing the philosophical problems of marketing knowledge, we seek to develop practical guidelines for developing empirical generalisations. In particular we suggest three criteria for the development of marketing knowledge: ensuring falsifiability and theoretical competition; overcoming uncertainty through replication; and using e...

The traditional understanding of stakeholders requirements is that they express desirable relationships among phenomena in the relevant environment. Historically, software engineering research has tended to focus more on the problems of modeling requirements and deriving specifications given requirements, and much less on the meaning of a requirement itself. I introduce new concepts that elucid...

Counterfactual definiteness is supposed to underlie the Bell theorem. An old controversy exists among those who reject theorem implications by rejecting counterfactual and claim that, since it a direct consequence of locality, cannot be independently rejected. We propose different approach for solving this contentious issue realizing that an unnecessary inconsistent assumption. not equivalent r...

Abstract Absence of evidence arguments are indispensable to comparative neurobiology. The absence in a given species homologous neural architecture strongly correlated with type conscious experience humans should be able taken as prima facie reason for concluding that the question does not have capacity experience. reasoning is, however, widely disparaged being both logically illicit and unscie...

Despite spatial and temporal fluctuations in turbulent astrophysical systems, mean-field theories can be used to describe their secular evolution. However, observations taken over time scales much shorter than dynamical capture a system single state of its turbulence ensemble. Comparing with theory falsify the latter only if is additionally supplied quantified precision. The central limit theor...