Abstract

In this article we will explain and defend the proposition: “A statement which prescribes the conditions for its verification is a scientific statement.” We will confine our consideration to factual statements alone, although it may be true that our proposed proposition refers to formal, analytic statements also.If prescribing the conditions for its verification is the only necessary qualification for a statement to be scientific then obviously the means of arriving at such a statement is irrelevant. It does not matter whether we have performed many experiments or none before making a scientific statement. There are, of course, reasons for having a systematic method of arriving at the formulation of scientific statements, but this does not make them more, or less, scientific.