Ian Hacking, who has been interested in the nature and role of experiment in science, once said that science involves (sometimes? always?) "speculation, calculation, and experiment."
Representing and Intervening: Introductory Topics in the Philosophy of Natural Science 215 (1983). Ian Hacking has been a student of the history of science, and he has been influenced by the relativizing tendencies of theorists such as Thomas Kuhn. But, he says, he, Hacking, is not a relativist. He might be called -- he has called himself -- a "pragmatic realist."
&&&The dynamic evidence page
It's here: the law of evidence on Spindle Law. See also this post and this post.
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