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>Theory: In science, a well-substantiated explanation of some aspect of the natural world that can incorporate facts, laws, inferences, and tested hypotheses.
by aortega 13y ago
>Theory: In science, a well-substantiated explanation of some aspect of the natural world that can incorporate facts, laws, inferences, and tested hypotheses.
...that can be wrong and often are replaced by better theories as more tests and better explanations came out.
Science is based in doubt. If you are too sure of a scientific theory, you are missing what science really is about and what you need is religion.
- jballanc 13y agoFalsifiability is a feature of every element of science. Something that is not falsifiable isn't science. Period. But a Theory is not a guess. It is a framework built from individual pieces, some of which may be hypotheses (effectively guesses) that have been tested and found to hold within the larger structure of that framework.
- aortega 13y agoIf you are based in individual pieces that may be effectively guesses, how you are not also a guess?
- BlackDeath3 13y agoThe reason that theories are not referred to as "guesses" is because there is, in theory (pun intended), an enormous chasm of evidence between a theory, and a guess/hypothesis. Nothing is known with absolute certainty. What is the point is referring to everything as a "guess" simply because it isn't known for certain? Context is important here.
- saraid216 13y agoFallibility doesn't make it a "guess".