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  2. Scientific law - Wikipedia

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    The term "scientific law" is traditionally associated with the natural sciences, though the social sciences also contain laws. [11] For example, Zipf's law is a law in the social sciences which is based on mathematical statistics. In these cases, laws may describe general trends or expected behaviors rather than being absolutes.

  3. Scientific theory - Wikipedia

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    A scientific theory differs from a scientific fact or scientific law in that a theory seeks to explain "how" or "why", whereas a fact is a simple, basic observation and a law is an empirical description of a relationship between facts and/or other laws. For example, Newton's Law of Gravity is a mathematical equation that can be used to predict ...

  4. Law (principle) - Wikipedia

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    For example, physical laws such as the law of gravity or scientific laws attempt to describe the fundamental nature of the universe itself. Laws of mathematics and logic describe the nature of rational thought and inference (Kant's transcendental idealism, and differently G. Spencer-Brown's work Laws of Form, was precisely a determination of the a priori laws governing human thought before any ...

  5. List of eponymous laws - Wikipedia

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    First law: When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong. Second law: The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.

  6. Category:Scientific laws - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "Scientific laws" The following 17 pages are in this category, out of 17 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...

  7. Falsifiability - Wikipedia

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    In more than twelve pages of The Logic of Scientific Discovery, [25] Popper discusses informally which statements among those that are considered in the logical structure are basic statements. A logical structure uses universal classes to define laws. For example, in the law "all swans are white" the concept of swans is a universal class.

  8. Empirical statistical laws - Wikipedia

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    However, both types of "law" may be considered instances of a scientific law in the field of statistics. What distinguishes an empirical statistical law from a formal statistical theorem is the way these patterns simply appear in natural distributions , without a prior theoretical reasoning about the data.

  9. List of scientific laws named after people - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of scientific laws named after people (eponymous laws). For other lists of eponyms, see eponym. Law Field Person(s) Named After Abel's theorem: Calculus: