“Next time we’ll wrap things up by summarizing what we have found, and explaining in more detail why all of the other theories about the word ‘jazz’ are certainly false.”
A curator at the American Museum of Natural History once told me it was a theory that Earth revolved around Sun. And it is counter-intuitive that we are situated on a 24,855-mile circumference globe spinning 1000 miles per hour, barreling around the Sun 67,000 miles per hour.
In his The Logic of Scientific Discovery, Karl Popper argued that a true scientific theory should be able to be potentially falsified by empirical evidence, differentiating it from a pseudoscientific theory which does not have a testable observation that would disprove it.
All true--but also please note that in common speech we use theory to mean a "hunch" which is not at all what scientists mean by it. When they say that the earth revolving around the sun is a theory, they mean that it is an explanation (not a hunch) that has been supported by literally thousands of experiments and calculations. Anyway--back to the word "jazz"--the incorrect theories can indeed be falsified by evidence, as I will show. THANKS PETER
So informative and thorough.. Thank you Lewis
THANK YOU JEFF!
I can't recall exactly what the ken burns documentary said on this but it was brief so I'm assuming wrong?
Completely wrong, as I’ll explain in the next and last essay. THANK YOU GREG
“Next time we’ll wrap things up by summarizing what we have found, and explaining in more detail why all of the other theories about the word ‘jazz’ are certainly false.”
A curator at the American Museum of Natural History once told me it was a theory that Earth revolved around Sun. And it is counter-intuitive that we are situated on a 24,855-mile circumference globe spinning 1000 miles per hour, barreling around the Sun 67,000 miles per hour.
In his The Logic of Scientific Discovery, Karl Popper argued that a true scientific theory should be able to be potentially falsified by empirical evidence, differentiating it from a pseudoscientific theory which does not have a testable observation that would disprove it.
All true--but also please note that in common speech we use theory to mean a "hunch" which is not at all what scientists mean by it. When they say that the earth revolving around the sun is a theory, they mean that it is an explanation (not a hunch) that has been supported by literally thousands of experiments and calculations. Anyway--back to the word "jazz"--the incorrect theories can indeed be falsified by evidence, as I will show. THANKS PETER