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Re: Scientific Method
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dcarpenter (IP Logged)
Date: July 01, 2022 02:15PM
Correction: no "NOT" before "... an infinite number..."
The reliable application of the SM requires evidence, not the lack of evidence. So let's take your application that hypotheses do not require any evidence to be developed or formulated, but your FINAL hypothesis must be able to withstand challenges to the evidence to be refuted (with evidence). So if one can develop or formulate hypotheses based on no evidence, then is there an infinite number of hypotheses that I can generate that need to be disproved or "eliminated" to arrive at a FINAL hypothesis? Is this not a negative corpus methodology?
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