NATS 1730 Lecture 2: LECTURE 2 - Scientific Law and Change
7 Feb 2017
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Lecture two - sc nats 1730 scientific change 11/09/2014. Based only on observation **not based on theory or anything else, but observation ! e. g, the sun rises from the east and sets in the west. If there"s a counter example, you must modify the law! If the counterexample is not or cannot be accounted for, you have to throw the whole law out. There"s always a way to show something is right thus all must depend on proving something wrong. Theory: a statement that tends to explain a collection of observations. : - said that instead of the earth being in the center, the sun is the center and the earth is a planet. His theory had to be tested couldn"t find a counterexample because it is right! Even though it is right, it still contains intrinsic falsifiability. The lack of finding a counter exam supports this theory because it is consistent with every observations.
