The Assumptions of Science

• Reality of the world - we exist (that's a good thing!)
• Rationality - the world is understandable
• Regularity - there are recurring patterns in the world
• Discoverability - we can discover the solutions to the problems we study
• Causality - events happen because of preceding causes

The Goals of Science

• Discover Regularities
• Describe the Behavior
• Discover Laws
• Search for Causes

The Development of Theories

• Explanations for the laws that we discovered