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tama Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-20-09 12:43 AM
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12. Scientific truth
is a type of truth, conventional truth: a valid theory. A valid theory is logically (mathematically) and empirically consistent. So called "Laws" are also theories, rhetorically called "laws" because of presumed exceptional strenght of the theory.

"Observation that objects with mass tend to "fall" toward each other" is not law but empirical observation. Funnily enough, there is no scientifically true theory about gravity, Newton's theory is limited by some anomalies that Einstein's theory explains, but Einstein's theory is not mathematically consistent with Quantum Theory, which lacks good explanation of gravity.

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