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What is science?

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What is science?
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What is science?
August 18, 2023 at 12:43 am
Science tries to prove everything and nothing.
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RE: What is science?
August 18, 2023 at 1:22 am
Science doesn't try to do anything. It explains everything.
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RE: What is science?
August 18, 2023 at 2:57 am (This post was last modified: August 18, 2023 at 3:01 am by Anomalocaris.)
Science is an approach to explaining thing in such a manner as to provide you with a good chance of predicting how the thing will behave in situations under which its behavior had not been previously observed.

Unlike any other form of explanation, science does not set out to make you feel you understand.   It sets out to enable you to confirm whether you understand.
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RE: What is science?
August 18, 2023 at 3:12 am
Science is a way of thinking that seeks to provide evidence to confirm your ideas about how the world works. New evidence can modify or replace those ideas.
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RE: What is science?
August 18, 2023 at 8:07 am


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RE: What is science?
August 18, 2023 at 8:31 am
(August 18, 2023 at 12:43 am)MarcusA Wrote: Science tries to prove everything and nothing.

Proof is for maths.   Science highlights the implausibility of poor hypotheses.
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RE: What is science?
August 18, 2023 at 8:40 am
♫I am science,
Hear me roar!
In hypotheses
Too big to ignore.♫
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RE: What is science?
August 18, 2023 at 9:49 pm
(August 18, 2023 at 3:12 am)zebo-the-fat Wrote: Science is a way of thinking that seeks to provide evidence to confirm your ideas about how the world works. New evidence can modify or replace those ideas.

Yet science is practiced with an eye towards avoiding confirmation bias.
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RE: What is science?
August 19, 2023 at 7:36 pm
zebo, I'm with you. The other bloke is confused.
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RE: What is science?
August 19, 2023 at 7:41 pm
(August 18, 2023 at 12:43 am)MarcusA Wrote: Science tries to prove everything and nothing.

And you succeeded.
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