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Re:Fugitive on run for seventeen years found living in cave ... by dkersten on Monday September 30, 2019 @12:02PM (#21116813)
> Deterrence, according to the Wikipedia page, doesn't fit that definition of the word.

Yes, because the word "theory" was used erroneously. Saying that its currently a hypothesis would have been better.

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Re:Fugitive on run for seventeen years found living in cave ... by dragonwriter on Monday September 30, 2019 @12:08PM (#21116871)
> Yes, because the word "theory" was used erroneously. Saying that its currently a hypothesis would have been better.

No, it was used correctly; “theory” has definitions other than those in the context of empirical science and the use of “hypothesis” would have been at least as wrong as the scientific sense of “theory”.

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