Timeline for Does Probability come before Scientific Method?
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| Mar 17, 2020 at 3:11 | answer | added | Vince | timeline score: 0 | |
| Jun 27, 2017 at 18:19 | answer | added | Guill | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jun 27, 2017 at 7:55 | comment | added | Swami Vishwananda | probability is a mathematical device - or method - for explaining observations in empirical reality. It is not comparable to the scientific method. | |
| Jun 26, 2017 at 11:54 | vote | accept | Ron Artigan | ||
| Jun 26, 2017 at 5:20 | comment | added | virmaior | More importantly, what is the scientific method exactly? | |
| Jun 25, 2017 at 8:31 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackPhilosophy/status/878893361406541825 | ||
| Jun 25, 2017 at 3:55 | answer | added | Bumble | timeline score: 3 | |
| Jun 25, 2017 at 0:49 | comment | added | Mozibur Ullah | probable came before the scientific method, probability came after. | |
| Jun 24, 2017 at 19:44 | answer | added | user9166 | timeline score: 0 | |
| Jun 24, 2017 at 8:27 | comment | added | Ron Artigan | @Not_Here OK, I got what you mean, and somehow I addressed what you wrote in the paragraph "Of course, Probability is also an interesting mathematical theory...". Maybe I went to far saying that "Probability is a physical theory...", anyway the problem if Probability is implicitly used in the Scientific Method still stand. | |
| Jun 23, 2017 at 22:03 | comment | added | Not_Here | Probability theory is a branch of mathematics that is applied to physical theories, just like analysis and algebra are, and it is not itself a physical theory. You can talk about probability distributions as purely abstract mathematical objects, you don't need to invoke physics or chemistry at all. Probability is used by scientists but it itself is not a physical theory in the same way that electromagnetism is. | |
| Jun 23, 2017 at 22:02 | comment | added | Not_Here | "In this way, Probability is not different from any other physical theory" I don't think that this statement is true and I think that you might need to rethink this topic. Mechanics (Newtonian, quantum) use probability, but that doesn't mean that probability is a physical theory in the same way that the ones you listed are. Mechanics also use analysis and algebra, but that doesn't mean that either of those are "physical theories". I think that this confusion might be the impetus behind your question. | |
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| Jun 23, 2017 at 21:36 | history | asked | Ron Artigan | CC BY-SA 3.0 |