Tag
Scientific Method
Entries tagged scientific method.
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Concept
Falsificationism
A theory is scientific only if it forbids something observable and could in principle be proven wrong; science grows by bold guesses and hard attempts to refute them.
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ConceptParadigms and Scientific Revolutions
Science does not grow by steady accumulation but by long stretches of settled puzzle-solving punctuated by revolutions that overthrow the framework itself.
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ConceptThe Problem of Induction
Every inference from what we have observed to what we have not observed rests on an assumption that cannot itself be justified without circularity.
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