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| May 8, 2018 at 13:16 | comment | added | CriglCragl | At root, it is the en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Problem_of_induction to which various stances exist. But once again it is not an assumption, and is open to question and revision, such as vacuum energy sponteneously creating particles | |
| May 7, 2018 at 22:35 | comment | added | Ben | That would be too strong, since it would be a claim that things cannot change. Rather, science would proceed according to the philosophical conclusion (taken as an "assumption" for scientific practice) that whatever change things undergo is in accordance with their nature and follows causality. Scientists might also assume enough stability for their observations to be valid from one moment to the next during their experiments. | |
| May 7, 2018 at 16:56 | comment | added | michael | +1 - interesting point about the stability of the nature of things. would you say that means an assumption of the way things are is the way they've always been? | |
| May 7, 2018 at 12:19 | history | answered | Ben | CC BY-SA 4.0 |