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Re: What are "principles" in science?

sounds analytic, i.e., true by definition -- not synthetic.

bc

Ludwik Kowalski wrote:

After elaborating on what (a) experimental facts,
(b) hypotheses, c) theories and (d) laws are in
science an author of a textbook inserted:

"A PRINCIPLE TO REMEMBER. In a chemical
change the atoms in substances are rearranged
to make one or more new substances. The result
is a change in composition."

Would it be appropriate to replace the word
PRINCIPLE by the word LAW?
Ludwik Kowalski