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  2. Scientific law - Wikipedia

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    Like theories and hypotheses, laws make predictions; specifically, they predict that new observations will conform to the given law. Laws can be falsified if they are found in contradiction with new data. Some laws are only approximations of other more general laws, and are good approximations with a restricted domain of applicability.

  3. Hypothesis - Wikipedia

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    A hypothesis (pl.: hypotheses) is a proposed explanation for a phenomenon. A scientific hypothesis must be based on observations and make a testable and reproducible prediction about reality , in a process beginning with an educated guess or thought.

  4. Laws of association - Wikipedia

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    The basic laws were formulated by Aristotle in approximately 300 B.C. and by John Locke in the seventeenth century. Both philosophers taught that the mind at birth is a blank slate and that all knowledge has to be acquired by learning. The laws they taught still make up the backbone of modern learning theory.

  5. List of scientific laws named after people - Wikipedia

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    Number theory: Euclid: Euler's theorem See also: List of things named after Leonhard Euler: Number theory: Leonhard Euler: Faraday's law of induction Faraday's law of electrolysis: Electromagnetism Chemistry: Michael Faraday: Faxén's law: Fluid dynamics: Hilding Faxén: Fermat's principle Fermat's Last Theorem Fermat's little theorem: Optics ...

  6. Legal realism - Wikipedia

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    A belief in the instrumental nature of the law. Like Dewey and Pound, the realists believed that law does and should serve social ends. Judges take account of considerations of fairness and public policy, and they are right to do so. [15] A desire to separate legal from moral elements in the law. The realists were legal positivists who believed ...

  7. Jurisprudence - Wikipedia

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    Jurisprudence, also known as theory of law or philosophy of law, is the examination in a general perspective of what law is and what it ought to be.It investigates issues such as the definition of law; legal validity; legal norms and values; as well as the relationship between law and other fields of study, including economics, ethics, history, sociology, and political philosophy.

  8. Falsifiability - Wikipedia

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    In a discussion of the theory of evolution, Popper mentioned industrial melanism [32] as an example of a falsifiable law. A corresponding basic statement that acts as a potential falsifier is "In this industrial area, the relative fitness of the white-bodied peppered moth is high."

  9. Deductive-nomological model - Wikipedia

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    The higher theory's laws are explained in DN model by the lower theory's laws. [5] [6] Thus, the epistemic success of Newtonian theory's law of universal gravitation is reduced to—thus explained by—Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity, although Einstein's discards Newton's ontic claim that universal gravitation's epistemic success ...