Cornell Team Says It's Unified the Structure of Scientific Theories

An anonymous reader writes "Cornell physicists say they've codified why science works, or more specifically, why scientific theories work – a meta-theory. Publishing online in the journal Science (abstract), the team has developed a unified computational framework they say exposes the hidden hierarchy of scientific theories by quantifying the degree to which predictions – like how a particular cellular mechanism might work under certain conditions, or how sound travels through space – depend on the detailed variables of a model."

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Theories about science...

[fatphil]

...are by definition metaphysics.

So perhaps this belongs in a philosophy journal, not a scientific one?