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<blockquote data-quote="Azif" data-source="post: 899774" data-attributes="member: 53659"><p>Well...</p><p>Two or three things came to my mind when reading this:</p><p>1. if astrology does not work (it is a legit sceptic hypothesis that I respect), why to waste time in astrological forums? This is not a criticism, just an observation to reach precisely the conclusion that it should matter at least in psychological terms;</p><p></p><p>2. Chances do not exist. Chances are just what we call to what we do not understand. I have a PhD in Philosophy and believe me, I'd spent so many, but so many, hours on the free will problem (under which the divination methods are framed) and can tell you that there is not a logical nor rational explanation to believe in Astrology. Even with some experiments of the so-called "exact sciences", we don't have any strong reasons for that. But here I usually go with Hume and mitigate my scepticism, because - and this a personal perspective - there are also so many things that Astrology has predicted so well which could had not be predicted by any other means;</p><p></p><p>3. An interesting motto for the wrong predictions: blame the astrologer, not the astrology. The same way a doctor is capable of making poor diagnosis of your problem, offering wrong treatments, the same happens to any astrologer - this is also why, in the comunitarian (Kuhnian) spirit, I asked for other interpretations;</p><p></p><p>4. I didn't say charts per se are reflections of states of mind; I said these two predictions of mine might be that; again, the lumberjack (me) cutted the trees (these 2 charts) of a wrong way, but this lumdberjack is not destroying the forest (astrology) or proving it inefficient;</p><p></p><p>5. It may be a very interesting answer to consider the momentum of these particular teams, which are in the final stage and could be happy even not winning...but this is something that I don't like to do, because - and as I keep saying here and there - the ultimate goal is to predict anything without knowing the referents. I mean, if I know x is a better team than y, and I include that in my analysis, I doing little more than statistics, not astrology. IMO</p><p></p><p>Thanks for your comment though, I really appreciated!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Azif, post: 899774, member: 53659"] Well... Two or three things came to my mind when reading this: 1. if astrology does not work (it is a legit sceptic hypothesis that I respect), why to waste time in astrological forums? This is not a criticism, just an observation to reach precisely the conclusion that it should matter at least in psychological terms; 2. Chances do not exist. Chances are just what we call to what we do not understand. I have a PhD in Philosophy and believe me, I'd spent so many, but so many, hours on the free will problem (under which the divination methods are framed) and can tell you that there is not a logical nor rational explanation to believe in Astrology. Even with some experiments of the so-called "exact sciences", we don't have any strong reasons for that. But here I usually go with Hume and mitigate my scepticism, because - and this a personal perspective - there are also so many things that Astrology has predicted so well which could had not be predicted by any other means; 3. An interesting motto for the wrong predictions: blame the astrologer, not the astrology. The same way a doctor is capable of making poor diagnosis of your problem, offering wrong treatments, the same happens to any astrologer - this is also why, in the comunitarian (Kuhnian) spirit, I asked for other interpretations; 4. I didn't say charts per se are reflections of states of mind; I said these two predictions of mine might be that; again, the lumberjack (me) cutted the trees (these 2 charts) of a wrong way, but this lumdberjack is not destroying the forest (astrology) or proving it inefficient; 5. It may be a very interesting answer to consider the momentum of these particular teams, which are in the final stage and could be happy even not winning...but this is something that I don't like to do, because - and as I keep saying here and there - the ultimate goal is to predict anything without knowing the referents. I mean, if I know x is a better team than y, and I include that in my analysis, I doing little more than statistics, not astrology. IMO Thanks for your comment though, I really appreciated! [/QUOTE]
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