One way you could reject a theory is that it could be wrong.

一种情况是，理论本身就是存在错误的。

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I'm going to go there initially, so I can move this over here, so I can get the base part of that over there, I want to put that one there before I put this over here, finally I get to the point where I can move the bottom one over now I've got to be really careful to make sure that I don't cover up the bottom one in the wrong way before I get to the stage where I wish they were posts and there you go.

我要先把其他的放到多余的柱子上，然后把最底下的放到目标柱子上，我要在把除了最底下的圆盘，其他的圆盘挪过来之前,把最下面的圆盘放在这儿,因此我得出了最下面的盘子,应该如何摆放的结论,当我没得到其他盘子的正确摆放位置的时候,要很小心的确认没把错误的盘子,放在最下面的盘子上面。

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It just turns out to be wrong but another way-- And so one way to attack and address a scientific theory is to view it as just to see whether or not it works.

但最终被证明是错误的-,评判一个理论,是否属于科学理论的另一种情况,就是看它是否成功的进行了预测。

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Another way of saying that, stop me if this is wrong, but one way to say that is we've been assuming that politics is one dimensional, left/right and there might be other things involved: character or even among issues, even among political issues it could be more than one dimension.

换句话说就是,如果我说错了请纠正,换种说法就是,我们把政治假定为单一维度的,非左即右,然而它还涉及其他方面,比如性格问题,即使政治事务的处理也不是单一维度的

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