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Why do you put "theory" in quotes? I've given a recipe for producing testable predictions, aka a "theory". For example, if I'm right, then an appropriately wei
by yummyfajitas 10y ago
Why do you put "theory" in quotes? I've given a recipe for producing testable predictions, aka a "theory".
For example, if I'm right, then an appropriately weighted average of contemporary children's performance (weighted so that low quality children make up the same proportion as before) will show no change.
Do you have any intellectual issues with my comment, or are you simply engaging in highbrow dismissal?
- aninhumer 10y ago>I've given a recipe for producing testable predictions, aka a "theory". That's a hypothesis, not a theory.
- yummyfajitas 10y agoI think you might be right. I usually think of theories in this sense: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_(mathematical_logic) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_(mathematical_logic) And similar epistomological variants. But a bit of googling suggests that a distinction is made between a generally accepted and well tested theory, and one that's in the early stages and not well tested (which is termed a hypothesis as you note). In any case, this is just disputing definitions, rather than testable propositions about the underlying reality.
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