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Generally in math, they call hypotheses "conjectures," and proofs are similar to results.
by fwip 5y ago
Generally in math, they call hypotheses "conjectures," and proofs are similar to results.
- bee_rider 5y agoScience and math are definitely good friends and so I'm sure lots of analogies between the two could be made, but I believe the comment was getting at the epistemological difference between 'proven' (the happy state in mathematics) and 'not contradicted by experimental evidence' (the happy state in science).