<p>yeah, i put provisional too.</p>
<p>Empirical means based on experience</p>
<p>provisional… not permanent. 100% sure.</p>
<p>I think it is empirical because like science is a form of empiricism. Though that was mean, throwing a word with such connotations with provisional.</p>
<p>Empirical means “derived from experiment and observation rather than theory.”
And it can’t be verifiable because it can’t be proven, only disproven.</p>
<p>so which is it? they both fit well</p>
<p>It fits. It also means: Verifiable or provable by means of observation or experiment. I think this is the right answer because empirical is used a lot when describing theories and such.</p>
<p>… but we’re talking about a theory. And empirical means “derived from experiment RATHER than a theory.” So, it should be provisional.</p>
<p>95% sure it was provisional</p>
<p>I put empirical, I think, because I thought it meant based on theories, not experiments lol.</p>
<p>still it said that they could not be proved only disproved, and provisional means temporary until something better comes along</p>
<p>@ugaboga232 - Hmm, this was a hard one. But can it really be verifiable? The theory can only be disproven according to the passage, not proven.</p>
<p>ahhhh, I was so confused with the provisional/empirical one</p>
<p>I ended up putting empirical</p>
<p>Meh, that was a very mean question. Empirical has just too many connotations to science and theory for it to be an obvious wrong answer.</p>
<p>How much is 2 wrong on the CR?</p>
<p>I agree with pianoman429</p>
<p>99% sure it’s provisional…</p>
<p>In my SAT prep book it had a question and one of the CR answers was empirical. By the way it was explained in the text for that question, empirical should be wrong for the theory question.</p>
<p>I could be wrong, but I’m trying to remember. Was this the sentence (roughly)? Was there anything that said, can be disproven if another one comes along…?</p>
<p>A theory of the universe is ________, as it cannot be proven, but can be disproven.</p>
<p>According to the lovely internet, “The word empirical denotes information gained by means of observation, experience, or experiment.[1] A central concept in science and the scientific method is that all evidence must be empirical, or empirically based, that is, dependent on evidence or consequences that are observable by the senses. It is usually differentiated from the philosophic usage of empiricism by the use of the adjective empirical or the adverb empirically. The term refers to the use of working hypotheses that are testable using observation or experiment. In this sense of the word, scientific statements are subject to and derived from our experiences or observations. Empirical data is data that is produced by experiment or observation.”</p>
<p>So empirical is scientific… but it doesn’t imply anything about being able to disprove a theory but not prove it.</p>
<p>Well I thought it was empirical because it said something about later evidence disproving it.</p>
<p>this is a tough one, it can almost go both ways lol</p>
<p>empirical means by observation, does not exactly mean scientific. Empirical is the OPPOSITE of what you want - empirical theories are easily proven (and usually derived from experimentation). </p>
<p>You’re forgetting the part where the sentence said that new theories come along… thus making them temporary.</p>
<p>^^^ Actually, I lied, it sort of does if the original sentence said something about disproving it with information?</p>
<p>Does anyone remember the original?</p>