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Old Jun 27, 2007, 08:35 am   #3 (permalink) (top)
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Sometimes the hypothesis is incomplete. What usually happens is a hypothesis becomes a theory which becomes a law, or a mathematical formula.
But how do you know the law will work? What justifies our belief in the law? Verification, but relying on verification is unjustifiable. Here is a good article about The Problem of Induction


"...all life is an experiment. Every year, if not every day, we have to wager our salvation upon some prophecy based upon imperfect knowledge." -Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr
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