HPS100H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Formal Science, Fallibilism
23 Sep 2017
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Hypothetico deductive method: a hypothesis is allowed to introduce unobservable entities (e. g. microparticles, forces, supersrings, etc. ) provided that it predicts something novel, hitherto unobserved (not yet been observed), and some of these novel predictions are confirmed. Hd method too is shaped by our knowledge of the world (assumptions/theories). Nature of things: a thing has its nature, an indispensable (substantial) quality that makes a thing what it is: intuition grasps nature: the nature of a thing can be grasped intuitively by an experienced person. Aristotelian-medieval method: a proposition if acceptable if it grasps the nature of a thing through intuition schooled by experience or it is deduced from the general intuitive propositions. Scientific change: the laws (these are not accepted and not used but are pursued) A method becomes employed only when it is deducible from other employed methods and accepted theories of the time.
