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In fact you don't prove anything in science. You merely fail to disprove something.
by anonacct37 3y ago
In fact you don't prove anything in science. You merely fail to disprove something.
- epgui 3y agoin the “natural sciences”
- _ZeD_ 3y agoDo we have innatural ones?
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- cfiggers 3y agoIs computer science a science?
- thaumasiotes 3y agoOf course not. It's a branch of mathematics. Always has been.
- artemonster 3y ago„A branch“ - so we are back to trees then?
- epgui 3y agoMathematics and computer science are both in the category of formal science.
- epgui 3y agoYes, it’s a formal science.
- epgui 3y agoThe other category of science is called formal science.
- mistercheph 3y agoIs proving something internal to a system of ad-hoc rules that cannot (to the same standard of proof) be proven to have any correspondance with the natural world really proving something? Sincere question.
- epgui 3y agoI think so, yes. You start with axioms, and the proof follows from those. You can argue whether that’s interesting or not, but IMO it’s as much a proof as anything can be, and IMO it’s very interesting.