Yeah, makes sense. Just a different way of describing the same thing. Sound logic that led in the right direction if not (yet) to the right destination. More

Yeah, makes sense. Just a different way of describing the same thing. Sound logic that led in the right direction if not (yet) to the right destination. More generally, probably a useful distinction to keep in mind, between when science is offering us a direction and a theory vs when we really do have the evidence required to be fairly confident we're at the destination. Of course even then there are often deeper layers—floors within the destination building say, to torture the analogy. But that kind of distinction is different from the one between a guess that fits the evidence so far and something that is reasonably known.