Also, the topic matter is extremely appropriate for Psychological Science. It's not my practice to reconsider unsolicited revisions, and given the pressure on this journal, with the dramatic increase in submissions, I am even more disinclined than I was in previous years. The paper will appear in print. The Brownian motion argument is specious. A theory is a set of related statements that explain a variety of specific occurrences - the greater number of occurrences explained and the fewer the statements, the better the theory.
Theories provide a framework for the systematic and orderly examination of data.
Theories allow scientists to generate predictions for situations in which no data have yet been obtained. Viable theories are those that have had lots of their hypotheses confirmed. Traditional view of Science Data is collected, organized, and described. Use data to develop theories through induction. Using theories, we deduce hypotheses about what should happen.