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by abeppu
615 days ago
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I think it's a mistake to frame "why" as "cultural stuff around the scientific method" but not actually part of science. > Basically a hypothesis is a statement that can be true or false. That's it. No, a statement which can be true or false is just a proposition. The reason that we care about "why" is that a hypothesis has bearing on many falsifiable propositions. It's the difference between "the specific rock I dropped accelerated at 9.8 m/s^2" and Newton's law of universal gravitation. |
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41882469