"Pure science deals with types, not averages"
Any thoughts on this statement? I was wondering about the extent to which it is true. I know stats are used widely in medicine and such, which could be considered a form of applied science, but how much are they relevant to the formulation of theories? To give an example of a type, in chemistry there's this law called "the ideal gas law" and it is not really a law about real gases, at least not directly, but about hypothetical gases which have not been observed empirically.