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17-07-2003, 10:53 PM
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Do Theories Have to be Testable to be Scientific?
"greywolf42" writes:
No hypothesis can be considered part of the scientific method if it is not fundamentally disprovable. Only if you adhere to Popper's hypothesis about the scientfic method, which has been falsified. There are more classes of scientific statements, hypotheses, etc., than Popper considered. -- Chris Malcolm +44 (0)131 650 3085 DoD #205 School of Informatics, Edinburgh University, 5 Forrest Hill, Edinburgh, EH1 2QL, UK. [http://www.dai.ed.ac.uk/homes/cam/ ] |
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