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for applied philosophical questions about the study of science, the pursuit of scientific knowledge, and the scientific method
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Is Mathematics considered a science?
I think it's appropriate to say that mathematics is science in that it yields "reliable" knowledge; however, the knowledge that it yields, as well as the mechanism by which said knowledge is verified, …
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Do theories come from observations or do they determine what is observed?
I think perhaps the contradiction in views here is only partial.
It seems to me that perhaps what Mach meant is not that theory directly "comes from" observations (in the sense that observations can …