Verification by Phenomena

• About [verification
  • Verification by experiment is easy to understand in the image of experimental science.
  • This is verified by the fact that the phenomenon that occurs as a result of the experiment is consistent with the expectation.

relevance

• The “predictions” are being matched against the “experimental results.”
  • Forecasts are largely nonverbal, although the main part may be described linguistically
    • That’s why there are “Unexpected Discoveries”.
    • Example: I was mixing a chemical and it turned out to be a very bright color, even though I didn’t intend it to be that way.
      • They couldn’t have verbalized before the experiment that “the color doesn’t change as a result of the experiment.”
  • The result of the match may be an exact match, an exact mismatch, or a partial match.
    • Encourages segmentation of the world in the case of partial
    • This is the same principle as direct matching of symbols - There are three patterns in the results of direct matching

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