Originally posted by lucifershammer
If you really think that you seriously need to read some 20th century philosophers of science.
Got any recommendations?
Please, also, I would be interested in what you consider to be a fact, and not a fact in science. For example, if I weigh a leaf, and it has a mass of 0.238g, is that a fact? If not, what is it? If I weigh 9 more, and conclude that the mean for that population is 0.264 +/- 0.010 g, is that a fact?
If I 15N label the leaf, measure the loss of N from the leaf through time, and the total N pool, are the extrapolated fluxes facts, or merely the component measurements? It's very difficult to draw distinct lines, but I'd consider protein turnover to have been proven beyond any reasonable doubt, and to be a "fact".