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Lecturer: Given our current state of knowledge and technology, Support we can say that the generalization that the entropy of a closed system cannot decrease for any spontaneous process has not been falsified by any of our tests of that generalization. ██ ██ ████████ ██ ██ ██ ████ ████████████ ████ ██ ████ ██ ████████ ████ ████ ██████████████ ███ ███ ████ ████████████ █████████ ██ ███ █████ ████ ██ ███ ███ ████ ██████ ██ █████ ██████ ██ ███ █████████ █████ █████ ████████ ██████████ █████████████ ████ ██████████████ ██ █████████ ████████ ██ █ ██████████ ████ ███████ ██ ██ ████████ ██ ██ ███ ██████ ███ ██ ███████████████
Summary
While it hasn’t been tested in every possible setting, the Second Law of Thermodynamics has not been proven false by any tests possible with our current technology. It is therefore rightly considered to be a scientific law.
Notable Assumptions
The argument’s conclusion makes a claim that the Second Law of Thermodynamics is correctly regarded as a scientific law, but the premises don’t tell us anything about what is required for something to be a scientific law. The premises instead only tell us that current technology can’t prove that the law is false, so we conclude it is universally true. We therefore need some principle that explains the connection - that connects the fact that it has not been falsified by our current knowledge to the claim that is a scientific law.
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