Timeline for What is the difference between "theory" and "explanation"?
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| Oct 25, 2020 at 8:07 | vote | accept | adieng | ||
| Oct 11, 2020 at 14:52 | comment | added | Jeff Morrow | According to modern philosophy of science, no scientific conclusion is ever fully confirmed; it is always subject to modification or rejection by evidence. If a conclusion cannot possibly be falsified by observation or experiment, it is not a scientific conclusion. It is the testability of science that makes it science. . | |
| Oct 11, 2020 at 14:47 | comment | added | Jeff Morrow | There is a theory of "falling down," namely the theory of universal gravitation, which explains a MUCH broader range of phenomena than stumbling on stones. In fact, stumbling on stones does not even explain the entire class of phenomena called "humans falling down." | |
| Oct 11, 2020 at 5:08 | comment | added | adieng | Thank you so much sir for your answer. My example not being a theory in the first sense is understandable. But how is "falling down" which happens to so many people not a general category of phenomena? Sorry if this question is silly but I have only recently graduated from high school with very basic English. Also, by "capable of being shown false by observation or experiment" do you mean that when the correctness of a theory is confirmed it ceases to be a theory? | |
| Oct 10, 2020 at 18:39 | history | answered | Jeff Morrow | CC BY-SA 4.0 |