HPS100H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Deferent And Epicycle
2 Dec 2017
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How do we decide which should be accepted. Acceptance=taken as the best available description of its object. Use=it is taken as an adequate tool for practical application. Method=a set of requirements for employment in theory assessment. Methodology=a set of explicitly formulated rules of theory assessment. Method are actual(implicit) expectations of the scienti c community. Methodology are the rules openly prescribed by the community as the correct way of doing science. Theories would change but the method would remain. We accept the theory because it ts the data. ontological . If yes, in order to become accepted, the new theory must also provide confirmed predictions of hitherto unobserved phenomena. If no, in order to become accepted, the new theory must fit the known data with more precision and accuracy than the accepted theory. postulate . Superstring theory the absence of con rmed novel predictions is the reason why the theory is currently not accepted, but merely pursued.
