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Re: What is Science?

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Originally Posted by freeztar View Post
To be fair, Science could be considered a method of trials and errors, with the trials being the experiments and the errors being the falsification.

Imho, the example given of the child walking down the stairs is too ambiguous to make any certain conclusions about the science that may or may not be employed. You can certainly study walking in a scientific manner.

The Physics of . . . Walking | Physics & Math | DISCOVER Magazine
Your link is, for all intents and purposes, a full rendition of the information gained by advanced studies of all aspects of the physical properties of the motion. The child does not have all that information, but does act in accordance with the information he does have - he has, probably, studied how other people move and compared it to his crawling.

How about the invention of the wheel, has then been explored around here?
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