This is important. It's very important. It's vital
to science, or even to grasp science...
Things can be enumerated; stated, spelled out,
named. But things can be there, can be part of
something -- integral -- and yet be unenumerated.
Probably the most famous example, if you're an
American, is the "Right to Privacy." It wasn't
enumerated...
For non Americans and the science folks, probably
the best example is evolution. "Common Descent"
is quite old -- already ancient by the time Darwin
was misunderstanding & misrepresenting it -- and
"Evolution" was always part of it. It was always there.
Integral.
Evolution was always a component of Common
Descent, even if it was unenumerated.
...if a goat and a whale share a common ancestor,
I like to point out, then clearly one or both had to evolve
a great deal since the time of that common ancestor.
Common Descent is very, Very, VERY old and evolution
had always been integral. Always. There was never a
moment when evolution was not present, was not a
component.
A recent example of unenumerated, seen here, is
Einstein and his introduction of a Multiverse within his
Simultaneity. It's there, this Multiverse. Einstein
describes it. But he doesn't say it. It's integral. It's
unspoken but present. Necessary.
"Integral."
These concepts are really important because they
relate directly to "Predictions" and therefore tests...
Falsifiability.
"Wait. If this is saying [A] is true then that has to
mean that [B] is also true. So let's test for [B]."
Oh, call it an inference. if you need that. But it's
there.
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