(March 17, 2023 at 2:11 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:(March 17, 2023 at 1:40 pm)FlatAssembler Wrote: What do you think, if p-values are what makes a science a hard science, is my paper about Croatian names of places which has a p-value (at least the math showing that the p-value is somewhere between 1/300 and 1/17) then harder science than most of historical phonology is? In historical phonology, there are usually no p-values. Is my paper then harder science than, for example, the Havlik's Law is? As Havlik presumably did not calculate the p-values. I think that's an absurd suggestion. I am way more certain that the Havlik's Law is correct than that my etymology with a p-value is correct.
I don’t think about it.
Boru
You don't think about hard and soft sciences? About the philosophy of science?
