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Philosphy behind science
This can be called a basic question for the philosophy of a science. I don't know how many people have thought in this way.
So far we believe that every event is guided by some kind of laws. And this is the approach of scientific progress or development. So let's call this belief as a "Scientific Pre-assumption"
For example, if we see an apple to fall down to the earth we try to find out a law as a reason for the falling. When we discover that the "the gravitaional force" can be a good fellow to do this business, we say: "Hurray ! Nature fallows laws and the pre-assumption is evidenced".
But when we don't find out such a law for an incident we still believe that there must be some law or reasoning, although imperceptible for the moment, behind the phenomenon. But who else can guarantee our pre-assumption to be always right, i.e. we'll be always successful to describe an event with the help of laws (if not today then someday in future) ?
So this is the question: Is the scientific pre-assumpsion as obvious as
an axiom (i.e. it can be taken granted always without a doubt) ?
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