Just as the results from statement 1 indicate, students are fairly evenly split about the meaning of a scientific theory (statement 6).
According to this theory, synthetic statements—statements that are not true, or false, merely by virtue of the meanings of their terms ("All bachelors are unmarried")—are cognitively meaningful only if they are empirically verifiable, at least in principle.
Like other definitions of theories, including Popper's, Kitcher makes it clear that a good theory includes statements that have (in his terms) "observational consequences".
Through a method of constant comparison, a key element of grounded theory, the statements made during the interviews at two different times can be compared with one another, and be related to one another.
After calling evolution a controversial theory, the statement says, "Instructional material associated with controversy should be approached with an open mind, studied carefully and critically considered".
Fermat's theorem, also known as Fermat's little theorem and Fermat's primality test, in number theory, the statement, first given in 1640 by French mathematician Pierre de Fermat, that for any prime number p and any integer a such that p does not divide a (the pair are relatively prime), p divides exactly into ap − a.
In empirical sciences, the validity of generalizing theories or statements is, however, a matter of degree because you can never be sure that a general statement is true.
He thinks of meaning theories as statements of what it 'would suffice' to know in order to be in a position to interpret a speaker's utterance.
To deal with such situations, Popper introduced the concept of verisimilitude (or "truthlikeness") [14] to score the degree of likelihood of truth in a theory or statement.
