Alex, whether you realize it or not (and at the risk of inciting any currently attending science-police), this question is at the heart of what’s wrong with the current scientific method. And despite this method having done much good, in truth, it fails to make discoveries close to one hundred percent of the time. Imagine….
First, nice to meet you, Kalangi. And thank you for this seemingly simple, but incredibly complex, and lovely, question. So what is the difference? I’m going to offer two directions in which to look for an answer: in an origin story, and by using logical geometry. First the story. ************************* In my early forties, I…
To begin with, it makes sense you’d ask about this difference. These two things have much in common, including that they both refer to philosophical viewpoints used as tools in the search for truth. And flaws aside, both have served us well.But both also have problems. A hypothesis is an untested, guessed answer. The current…