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From: Philip Baker <news@thalasson.com>
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Subject: Re: Latin in legal English
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2007 02:16:48 +0000
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In article <Misc-7F1BF9.22564111032007@newsclstr03.news.prodigy.net>,
Miss Elaine Eos <Misc@your-pants.PlayNaked.com> writes
>Btw, in English, it's called a "hypothesis" until you have collected
>your data, conducted research, formulated a proof and your proof has
>passed peer review. Then you have a "theory" -- like the theory of
>gravity or the theory of evolution.
That's a rather narrow definition of 'theory' and anyway theorems in
mathematics have proofs but scientific theories rarely do.
--
Philip Baker
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