--- Andrea Sosio <andrea.sosio@italtel.it> wrote: >
>
> André wrote:
>
> > Is "The idea of science" theoretical?
> > Is "the contraint of empirical truth" theoretical?
> > Is "empirical truth" theoretical?
>
> By "theoretical", I was referring to this definition
> of theory: "the
> general or abstract principles of a body of fact, a
> science, or an art".
> It seems that the basic, general principles of
> science include the
> notion of empirical truth, so empirical truth
> belongs to the theory of
> science, hence it is theoretical (related to a
> theory). If I knew why
> you're asking, then I could maybe provide a more
> useful answer...
>
> As for the idea "empirical truth" being theoretical
> in the sense of
> belonging *only* to theory (hypotetical?), that
> opens a wide area of
> discussion (which, I'm sure, was already travelled
> far and wide in MD).
> Empirical truth, aka "objective" truth, at least in
> the way this is
> commonly conceived by scientists and ordinary
> people, is a SOM concept.
>
> A
>
I think the term "theory" is used too often where it
is unwarrented. I personally wouldn't refer to any of
those noun phrases above as theories.
André
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