Citation: Chen Minbo. Could Truth be Approached by Fitting More Experimental Data Solely?——On "What do We Believe Calculations on?"-III[J]. Chemistry, ;2016, 79(3): 196-204. shu

Could Truth be Approached by Fitting More Experimental Data Solely?——On "What do We Believe Calculations on?"-III

Chen Minbo

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Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200032

Received Date: 25 September 2015
Available Online: 27 October 2015

In face of the academic disputes such as various ways to improve the Hammett equation in physical organic chemistry, the history of searching scientific truth of three topics are analyzed, i.e. the equation of state of real gas, the electronegativity and the principle of hard and soft acids and bases. The conclusion is that in order to approach the truth, the phenomenological theory can not be improved further by fitting more experimental data solely, and there exists no one successful example in the history. The way successful in the sense of statistics is nothing to the correctness in the physical meaning.
- Phenomenological theory,
- Fitting experimental data,
- Equation of state of real gas,
- Electronegativity,
- The principle of hard and soft acids and bases
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