At 10:03 PM 8/12/2008, you wrote: >Surely there are laws in other fields; e.g. >Boyles law for gasses; the laws of >thermodynamics; the law of gravity; the inverse >square law of light. It would seem that a law >should be able to be defined and not at the whim >of whomever: Something like a relationship >between variables which is consistent across >conditionsand I dont think psychology has any >such stable relationships which always hold. > >--Mike
I really wouldn't can the "law of gravity" a law - at least by the definitions we are using here. Gravity is a set of repeatable empirical observations for which there is a theory. The theory itself is quite strong - but not without its problems. Are so called laws in psychology really that different? -- Jim Dougan --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
