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- adjective Not
predictive .
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- adjective having no predictive value
Etymologies
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Examples
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Making public comments about it puts pressure on me to make adjustments in my theories if they prove to be unpredictive.
Why I didn't post Obama's accomplishments Steven Barnes 2008
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However, for the reasons I have explained, I believe the proposition is highly plausible, far more plausible than the contrary proposition, that string theory is entirely unpredictive about LHC-scale physics.
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Complicated, ugly theories are unpredictive because the input is as big as the output.
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Complicated, ugly theories are unpredictive because the input is as big as the output.
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You do claim that the Landscape renders string theory unpredictive.
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You are claiming that the framework itself is inherently unpredictive.
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What has happened is that people have pursued the string theory unification program far enough to see that hugely complicated, ugly and artificial constructions are needed in order to get something that looks like the real world, so much so that the framework is unpredictive and untestable.
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[T] he framework is unpredictive and untestable. or
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Any theorist working on a theory who ends up deciding the theory leads to something that ugly and that unpredictive has to just acknowledge failure and do something different.
Not Even Wrong Sean 2005
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The problem ultimately was intractable and unpredictive, at least in so far as what we currently understand with the available tools.
Two cheers for string theory Sean 2005
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