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Sciences > Sciences (Other) The similarities between social and physical sciences: 3 of 5

Often both the sciences and the so called "social sciences" use identical terms such as hypothesis, theory, experiment, empirical evidence and so on. This can leave the layman and even most people trained in the social sciences very confused, because what science means by these terms is not at all what the social sciences understand them to mean. In science a Theory is a hypothesis that has a broad range of experimental support and which, critically, has not been falsified. In the social sciences a theory is an idea, no matter how absurd and no matter how much evidence exists to the contra...
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