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| Comment | Post #291051 |
Yes, the Vikings visiting or even settling in America is a good example. That Eriksson had been to another place across the ocean was in the stories that the old folks handed down somehow. But in my "scientific method" model, finding Viking settlements prove nothing at all about Eriksson; only that V... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #290946 |
Do you mean something like [Peano-Russel notation](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peano%E2%80%93Russell_notation) as [used in Principia Matematica](https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/pm-notation/) ? (more) |
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| Comment | Post #291051 |
The introduction to [this paper at Boston University](https://www.bu.edu/hps-scied/files/2012/11/Cleland-HPS-Historical-science-experimental-science-and-the-scientific-method.pdf), for example, mentions experimental scientists who exclude empirically un-falsifiable hypotheses from the realm of scienc... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #291051 |
Can you expand a bit on how archeology can be used to confirm or disprove an account of an _event_, though? I can see how it is used to show how a certain bath was built, although the "experiment" is only run (or needed) once for this. But suppose there was a war: who took up arms first, and where di... (more) |
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Is the historical method a scientific method? Is the historical method a scientific method? When I was a child in grade school, I learned that "The Scientific Method" had the following steps: Observe a phenomenon: find things by curious exploration. Research what you have seen: ask if someone else has explained it. Hypothesize ab... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #291044 |
I hope someone will improve this proposal beyond recognition, because I don't have the expertise. (more) |
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| Edit | Post #291044 | Initial revision | — | 2 months ago |
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Chemistry: the study of substances. Site Name Chemistry Description The Chemistry community is a platform for chemistry students, researchers, and anyone interested in chemistry. Topics Topics covered include experimental and theoretical chemistry: the study of substances and their combinations; the science of the proper... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #290564 |
I am a hobbyist programmer, with only a grade school education but an interest in human scale security and information theory (more) |
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