In the 16th episode of our Philosophy of Science: The Mind's Route series, we build the bridge between what science sees and what it explains. By distinguishing observation terms from theoretical terms and empirical laws from theoretical laws, we examine the two core functions of theories: explanation and prediction.

We discuss how bridge postulates in the syntactic approach, and the concepts of model and intended application in the semantic approach, make a theory meaningful, with aviation examples ranging from turbulence to the pitot tube.

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