What does proof mean in a science vocabulary?

Question

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Answer 1

THE NATURE OF SCIENTIFIC PROOF

Is there proof in science?

1. In the sense that the word proof is used in mathematics and philosophy, nothingis ever proven in science. There is always some uncertainty about the actual value of results

obtained from some experiment or their interpretation.

2. The more times an observation is repeated and the greater number of differentobservations and theories that it ties into and agrees with, the more confident we are about how well we actually understand something.

3. However, in the strictest sense, we never arrive at "proof"; we simply arrive at avery high degree of probability that we understand something. Thus, it is important that you shift your frame of reference from one of proof and certainty of knowledge and interpretation of facts to one that is PROBABILISTIC in nature, where our confidence in whether or not we understand something properly is not and never can be absolute.

Thus, you are well advised to remove the word

"proof" from your vocabulary as far as science is concerned.This should be no big surprise -- truth and proof in our own lives are generally probabilistic in

nature. In fact, it is only in philosophy and mathematics where the criteria are rules of logic where the idea of proof, in its purest sense, ever has absolute meaning

Answer 2

a proof is an equation that proves if something is true or not. it is some really confusing stuff, so pay as much attention as you can in that class,  even if it just gets really boring. good luck!