—Observations vs Operations vs Explanations— 1) OBSERVATION, hypothesis, tested, theory, tested exhaustively, “Fact.” 2) OPERATIONS, hypothesis, tested, theory, tested exhaustively”, “Recipe” 3) EXPLANATION, hypothesis, tested, theory, tested exhaustively, “Law” (an apriori statement is a special case of explanation whereby the statement of hypothesis can be true and cannot be false.) Observation: reporting of factsOperations: production of processes. Explanations: describingcausal relations That’s probably the epistemological state of the art in a nutshell. Curt Doolittle The Propertarian Institute Kiev, Ukraine
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