re: #276 wheat-dogg

Since we were talking about math, a hypothesis is analogous to a geometric proof, while a theory is analogous to Euclidean geometry.

Mmmm… I wouldn’t say that.

One thing that has become increasingly common in recent discussions over science is that there is no one “scientific method”.

Along with that assertion we have to allow for variations in how someone may use the language.

Hypotheses can be little or big, grand or insignificant. Whatever they are, the one thing they have in common is that they are propositions, assertions about something.

This is why the idea of testability became so popular. The idea being that a proposition ought to be testable.

The word “theory” is now so over used, in so many ways, that I am not too hung up on what people want to make of it, as long as it is put in context.