Eh, if the hypothesis remains unfalsified for longer and longer, we can have increased confidence.
Similar, Newton's laws say that bodies always stay at rest unless acted upon by a force. Strictly speaking, if a billiard ball jumps up without cause tomorrow that would disprove Newton. So we'd have to wait an infinite amount of time to prove Newton right.
However no one has to wait so long, and we found ways to express how Newton's ideas are _better_ than those of Aristotle without waiting an eternity.
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Eh, if the hypothesis remains unfalsified for longer and longer, we can have increased confidence.
Similar, Newton's laws say that bodies always stay at rest unless acted upon by a force. Strictly speaking, if a billiard ball jumps up without cause tomorrow that would disprove Newton. So we'd have to wait an infinite amount of time to prove Newton right.
However no one has to wait so long, and we found ways to express how Newton's ideas are _better_ than those of Aristotle without waiting an eternity.