Sir,-Your correspondent "Christian" seems to have a peculiar definition of reason. If a scientist or philosopher states that every effect must have a cause, then reason is the process by which the nature of this cause is postulated; the accuracy of the reasoning would then be tested by the strength of the hypothesis formed to stand against the consistent attempts of scientists to falsify it. | "Christian’s" cause of this wonderful world of ours then is not a result of testable reasoning, it is but an "ad hoc" hypothesis, that is, an hypothesis that is formulated to explain away something without allowing itself to be tested by experiment.
J.N.
D
(Dunedin)."
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 13, Issue 336, 30 November 1945, Page 5
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