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Mar 7	awarded	Scholar
Mar 7	accepted	laws and theories
Mar 3	comment	laws and theories But why not using the word "law"? Because it is polysemic and confusing?
Mar 3	comment	laws and theories @David Zaslavsky That's why I didn't asked there :) Maybe I should give it a try at Philosophy.SE, maybe this is concerned with philosophy of science.
Mar 3	awarded	Supporter
Mar 2	comment	laws and theories The relationship between laws and theories is quite fuzzy, and seems that their relationship is only semantical rather than conceptual. Am I getting it?
Mar 2	comment	laws and theories I'm trying to clarify some matters regarding this very topic, that the names may be subjective. A colleague said that theory was some sort of previous step to get into a law. I thought that laws where similar to mathematical axioms, they are the rules of the game. On the other hand, theories are the "why" and "how" as Lagerbaer said. I thought that theories cannot become laws, but I'm unsure.
Mar 2	asked	laws and theories
Feb 28	comment	Dark matter references I have a bachelor's in mathematics but I'm really interested in this topic. Do you have any advise concerning a strategy to understand the topic? What do I have to study first?
Feb 21	awarded	Student
Feb 21	asked	Dark matter references