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“That’s funny…” implies you had a pre existing theory about how it was supposed to work.
by tdehnel 3y ago
“That’s funny…” implies you had a pre existing theory about how it was supposed to work.
- overboard2 3y agoYou don't need a preexisting theory though, you just need to lack one that explains the results of an experiment
- tdehnel 3y agoWhy would someone do an experiment without a theory to test? How would they know that a particular result was interesting without a theory about the expected result?
- SanderNL 3y agoAh, I see. You mean we need some (implicit) theory to even detect what is interesting about a result. Let’s say you measure a particle going c*2. Without theory you wouldn’t even notice this. Is that your point?
- jack_riminton 3y agoNot really. I don’t have my own theories on how most things work but I can recognise patterns that fall out of the norm
- tdehnel 3y agoso your theory is “things have predictable patterns” or “the future will be like the past”