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Originally Posted by JrKASperov
While a dictionary is all fine and dandy, if we are talking about the scientific world,.
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Originally Posted by Stratos
Perhaps, but if you talk about scientific theories you should use the definition of a scientific theory, not the vernacular usage.
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Which scientific world? Are you exclusively placing physics and chemistry and perhaps biology into the scientific world? What about economists, sociologists, anthropologists? These all deal with collecting hard data, analysing it and making conjecture about what they see.
As said, "theory" is not a word confined to those sciences, and as an artist, music theory is central to what I do. This is part of the problem when self styled "scientists" section themselves off from the rest of society. By losing the broader meaning of the word itself, a scientist can place greater self-importance on their "theory" than what is actually there.
An educated guess is still a guess. No it's not a random pick, but many of us make educated guesses every day in our lives. We hypothesise in our heads when we make plans for the next day, or have conversations with another person in our minds.
Hypothetical creation is part of what defines us as human, and as such is hardly the exclusive domain of physicists.