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the essential characteristics of science are: (1) It is guided by natural law; (2) It has to be explanatory by reference to nature law; (3) It is testable again
by depr 13y ago
the essential characteristics of science are:
(1) It is guided by natural law;
(2) It has to be explanatory by reference to nature law;
(3) It is testable against the empirical world;
(4) Its conclusions are tentative, i.e. are not necessarily the final word; and
(5) Its is falsifiable. (Ruse and other science witnesses).
http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/mclean-v-arkansas.html http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/mclean-v-arkansas.html
- SeanLuke 13y agoThis definition is from a non-scientist. And I think this is an absurdly over-specific and over-naturalist definition. #5 in particular is annoying given that Popperism is an ideal that essentially no scientific fields meet (including physics). Rather, I think the most reasonable definition of a science is very simple: a discipline whose primary technique for gathering new results is the scientific method. Anyway, given either definition, I don't see how Cryptography is a science.