Concept
Predictive power
Overview
The concept of predictive power, the power of a scientific theory to generate testable predictions, differs from explanatory power and descriptive power (where phenomena that are already known are retrospectively explained or described by a given theory) in that it allows a prospective test of theoretical understanding.
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Related ideas
- General relativity
- Urbain Le Verrier
- Scientific theory
- Natural selection
- Explanatory power
- Arthur Eddington
- Periodic table
- Brazil
- Gravity
- Albert Einstein
- Charles Darwin
- Evolution
- John Couch Adams
Place in the tradition
Part of Panpsychism.