HPS100H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Inheritance Of Acquired Characteristics, Pseudoscience, Homeopathy
10 Oct 2017
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Empirical: based on, concerned with, or verifiable by observation or experience rather than theory or pure logic. An empirical theory is scientific theory is scientific if it based on experience. This can"t be the case because it is extremely vague and it allows for cherry picking favorable evidence. An empirical theory is scientific if it explains all the known facts of its domain/field. This is not good because there are many unscientific theories that explain, not by and large, simply everything. An empirical theory is scientific if it explains, by and large (on the whole; everything considered. , the known facts of its domain. Even unscientific theories manage to explain the known facts. An empirical theory is scientific if it explains, by and large (on the whole; everything considered. , the known facts of its domain and it is testable (falsifiable) at least in principle.
