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How do archaeologists keep themselves from seeing only the facts that fit a given theory?
Indeed, the fact that no amount of evidence can decisively show that a given theory is true (as opposed to merely predictively successful) begs the question of whether it is meaningful to say that a theory is "true" or "false".
Setting aside the rigour of the evidence (for instance, how sure am I my stone is really blue and came from that bag?), Bayes' theorem acknowledges that even if you have good evidence, the impact it has on your belief – perhaps better expressed as the credibility you place on any given theory – will depend on your prior assessment of the theories involved.
Although the shape and structure of those systems cannot be discussed in any detail here, it should nonetheless be noted that a robust understanding of each of the major theories and texts in the history of philosophy of law requires some acquaintance with the legal systems of the cities and states in which a given theory was developed.
Experimental results are provided and compared with the given theory.
Different models of a given theory will share some dimensions of their state space while differing in others.
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The accuracy of given theories for each fixed problem is established in terms of displacement and stress fields.
This would also have been of interest given theories suggesting that body checking is an expression of this core psychopathology.
And as Wren-Lewis points out, this was in a way a case of giving theory priority over evidence.
Four give data priority over theory, one gives theory priority over data, and three give equal weight to both.
He gave theories.
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