内容 科学与假设 · 11
Science and Hypothesis · Hypotheses in Physics
A good hypothesis is neither bare fiction nor raw fact.
好的假设既不是空想，也不是未经整理的事实。
Hypothesis is a working bridge between experiment and mathematical form.
假设是实验和数学形式之间的工作桥。
命题
Hypotheses in Physics should be read as a question about how science stabilizes its objects.
卷一 9 · 物理学中的假设 要读成一个问题：科学怎样让自己的对象稳定下来。
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题
When does a hypothesis become useful?
一个假设什么时候有用？
解
When it organizes facts, predicts new relations and exposes what would count against it.
当它能组织事实、预言新关系，并说清什么会反驳它时。
互链 context
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