—Observations vs Operations vs Explanations—
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OBSERVATION, hypothesis, tested, theory, tested exhaustively, “Fact.”
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OPERATIONS, hypothesis, tested, theory, tested exhaustively”, “Recipe”
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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 facts
Operations: production of processes.
Explanations: describing causal relations
That’s probably the epistemological state of the art in a nutshell.
Curt Doolittle
The Propertarian Institute
Kiev, Ukraine