(March 17, 2023 at 5:15 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:(March 17, 2023 at 5:09 pm)FlatAssembler Wrote: Do you think p-values are what makes a science a hard science?
No.
Boru
Then what do you think, are there hard sciences and soft sciences? Or are sciences basically the same in that regard?
I am almost certain there are harder and softer fields of study within sciences. I think that, within linguistics, phonetics is a far harder science than historical phonology is, and that historical phonology is a far harder science than the study of the names of places is.
I also think there are probably harder and softer sciences. Physics presumably being the hardest and history being the softest. I think linguistics is the hardest of the social sciences, harder than sociology and other social sciences.
But I am not sure what makes a science a hard science. What do you think?
