Inference and its role in NS (General)

by romansh , Thursday, January 13, 2011, 06:32 (5062 days ago) @ dhw

I can't remember who said/intimated, that a scientific Law and Theory are synonymous it's just that a Law can said in pithy statement. These have lots of evidence to support statements, have stood the test of time and even remain Laws and theories when evidence has been found to show them as inacurate - eg Newton's Laws.-Hypothesis(es) are testable propositions, that have some evidence to support them but require a lot more corroborating evidence. -Models (for me) could be a description of some reality that are composed of theories and hypotheses that could be used for predictions or used to test the hypotheses.-Speculations have little or no evidence. But can be fun.-There is no need for belief in a scientist's world. Replicates and the concepts of precision and accuracy would be unnecessary otherwise.