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Induction and Intuition in Scientific Thought: Memoirs, American Philosophical Society (Vol. 75)

Induction and Intuition in Scientific Thought: Memoirs, American Philosophical Society (Vol. 75)

Medawar, Peter Brian

Paperback

Series: Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society

General Science

ISBN10: 0871690756
ISBN13: 9780871690753
Publisher: American Philosophical Society Press
Published: Jan 1 1969
Pages: 62
Weight: 0.61
Height: 0.31 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Why are most scientists indifferent to scientific methodology? The answer: 'because what passes for scientific methodology is a misrepresentation of what scientists do.' This book explores what is wrong with the traditional methodology of 'inductive' reasoning; the alternative scheme of reasoning can give the scientist a certain limited but useful insight into the way he thinks. The force of scientific enquiry comes from a preconception of what might be true -- which is exposed to critical analysis, to find out whether or not the imagined world corresponds with the real one. It is essentially a dialogue between imaginative insight and critical appraisal; between the possible and the actual; between what could be true and what is in fact the case.

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