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I think it's far more far to say the opposite: science is an ever evolving model of the world, but science is always just a model. F = ma is a model. And you
by PheonixPharts 3y ago
I think it's far more far to say the opposite: science is an ever evolving model of the world, but science is always just a model.
F = ma is a model.
And you may try to limit your argument to only "statistical models = not science" but then you would be dismissing essentially all social sciences but also ecology, geology, climate science, not to mention every single aspect of statistical mechanics.
Science is essentially hypothesis testing where hypothesis represent models of how the world works. Didn't you even take high school physics where you spend considerable time running experiments and writing up why they don't exactly match the formula's prediction in the book?
Would you mind explaining what model-free science looks like? Is it just cataloging observations?
- mnky9800n 3y agoDude the ideal gas law is all that matters. After that it's all just malarkey.
- IG_Semmelweiss 3y ago>>> Would you mind explaining what model-free science looks like? Is it just cataloging observations? Anything that can be tested and replicated with all things exactly equal, except that which is the hypothesis being tested. Most if not all of social science, ecology, geology, climate science may not be possible to do this way, since it often involves humans and/or earth, and its physically impossible to duplicate earth, or a human (with identical thoughts,feelings, or experience)
- hgomersall 3y agoA hypothesis? That's just a fancy name for "model".