You have to test your hypothesis against other theories. Certainty in the face of complex situations is very dangerous.
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There can be theory but, you know, the problem is you've got to be able to test it. So theories are one thing, testing is another.
You can't prove any hypothesis, you can only improve or disprove it.
Good tests kill flawed theories; we remain alive to guess again.
Complex, statistically improbable things are by their nature more difficult to explain than simple, statistically probable things.
If the facts are contrary to any predictions, then the hypothesis is wrong no matter how appealing.
Whenever a theory appears to you as the only possible one, take this as a sign that you have neither understood the theory nor the problem which it was intended to solve.
In so far as such a theory is empirically correct it will also tell us what empirical facts it should be possible to observe in a given set of circumstances.
It is a test of true theories not only to account for but to predict phenomena.
I tried to develop some theories that took account of the uncertainty in the world and the complexity in the world.
Enough research will tend to support your conclusions.
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