Florian Haas on Nostr: Pet peeve: "theory" is not the word for an educated guess. A theory is a developed ...
Pet peeve: "theory" is not the word for an educated guess. A theory is a developed thought framework that fits all available data. For as soon as there's valid data that contradicts the theory, the theory is invalid.
Don't say "theory" when you mean hypothesis or conjecture.
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