From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Joe Bob Spamtest Subject: Re: I request inclusion of SAS Transport Layer and AIC-94xx into the kernel Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2005 12:12:34 -0700 Message-ID: <433D8E22.9060505@spamtest.viacore.net> References: <20050929232013.95117.qmail@web31810.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <92154686-787B-4254-B404-482E234B245D@neostrada.pl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <92154686-787B-4254-B404-482E234B245D@neostrada.pl> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Marcin Dalecki Cc: Linus Torvalds , SCSI Mailing List , Linux Kernel Mailing List List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org 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