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From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: Software Engineering and Dreamers
Date: 1997/05/30
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<<Science, be it physics, chemistry, biology or whatever, is an attempt to
discover the laws and principles which govern the existence of "things".
"Things" can be natural phenomena or a phenomenon exhibiting certain
behaviour which is defineable at whatever level. It's basically an
attempt to explain the way things, any things, work.
>>

I object to this solution. It smacks of searching for Truth with a 
capital T. Science is about constructing theories that are consistent
with observations, and which have the capability of predicting the
outcome of observations not yet made. 

"*the* way things work"

no

you are looking for *a* theory, not *the* theory!