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2026-07-27 09:14 UTC
@tribactam@social.vivaldi.net @juergen_hubert@mementomori.social ... and you can have a theory of what the Laws of Gravity are - that's all you can have.
The issue is that, like most words, the word "theory" is used differently in different contexts. As Wikipedia puts it
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@goedelchen@mastodontech.de 2026-07-27 09:15
@tribactam@social.vivaldi.net @juergen_hubert@mementomori.social People, who are very into science, tend to ignore or even negate the vernacular (what a word) usage. People, who aren't interested in the foundations of science normally don't even know the definition of "scientific theory" 2/2