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I don't know anybody involved in the active pursuit
of physics, biology, chemistry or the like who would support
this so-called "traditional picture". Do you have some
support for your characterization? And why is it important
to have such categories?
I have noted that beginning elementary and high school
teachers, when unsure of their subject matter, tend to
emphasize names and definitions. I think that i9 because the
leaqrning of names and definitions is the easiest kind of
teaching that can be readily measured. Standardized tests
are easy to construct for such purposes.
Otoh Boyle's Law is easily characterized as an empirical law,
and "Newton's Laws", together with the "Law of Gravity"
constitute a theory in the proper sense, "explaining" as they
do, amongst many other things, Kepler's Laws, which are
again empirical laws, being a (mathematical) generalization
from observation.