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Induction and Intuition in Scientific Thought|Peter Brian Medawar

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

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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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  • ISBN-13: 9780871690753
  • ISBN-10: 0871690756
  • Publisher: American Philosophical Society Press
  • Publish Date: January 1969
  • Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.31 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 0.61 pounds
  • Page Count: 62

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