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Re:Secret government: America against democracy by wissler on Wednesday July 10, 2013 @03:14PM (#6022120)
"Those would not be theories, those would be observations.

Theories attempt to explain why things happen as they do, observations are statements that something has or has not happened."

You are very confused. The observation is that it appears as if the Sun is moving across the sky. The theory is that that's because the Earth is rotating.

You should be able to work out the rest for yourself.

Re:Secret government: America against democracy by diminoten on Wednesday July 10, 2013 @03:18PM (#6022152)
It's either a theory and we don't know it, or it's an observation and we do know it. You can't, definitionally, have your cake and eat it as well.

You can never know a theory to be true. A "true" theory does not exist.

Re:Secret government: America against democracy by wissler on Wednesday July 10, 2013 @04:37PM (#6022626)
You are not the arbiter of what constitutes a "theory." And it's a good thing, too...
Re:Secret government: America against democracy by diminoten on Wednesday July 10, 2013 @11:24PM (#6024329)
You're mistaken if you think I'm saying I am. I'm telling you what other people hear when you say 'theory'.

Feel free to think whatever you'd like, but this is what people will be thinking of when you say 'theory'.

Re:Secret government: America against democracy by wissler on Thursday July 11, 2013 @01:56AM (#6024675)
You should do more study on the varied senses of "theory."
Re:Secret government: America against democracy by pg on Thursday July 11, 2013 @02:03AM (#6024691)
Please stop.