The idea that the universe is expanding was first proposed by Edwin Hubble in the late 1920s and has been repeatedly backed ...

This week, a group of about 100 physicists and philosophers have gathered in Munich to reassess a question at the heart of science: “Why trust a theory?” In an opinion piece by George Ellis ...

I am often asked by psychologists and other scientists if there is “empirical support” for the Tree of Knowledge System.My first response is: “Absolutely. Look around.

Richard’s examples for this non-empirical evaluation—arguments commonly made by string theorists in favor of their theory—are (1) the absence of alternative explanations, (2) the use of ...

The theory is subject to a number of attacks. First, there is the question of whether any of it is actually true. Do patrons use nonprofit status as a signal of “trustworthiness” and does it ...

You can calculate empirical probability by creating a ratio between the number of ways an event happened to the number of opportunities for it to have happened. In other words, 75 heads out of 100 ...

Thes is a reprint of E.L. Thorndike's article "Empirical Studies in the Theory of Measurment" from The Archives of Psychology, No. 3, April, 1907. It includes some underlining and marginalia. Location ...