PHIL10002 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Continental Drift, Pseudoscience, Scientific Method
3 Aug 2018
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Pseudo-science: typical non-sciences make no attempt to be a science nor do they pretend to be scientific, pretend to be a science, e. g. astrology, the international flat earth society founded in 1956. It forms part of the modern theory of plate tectonics: but the scientific status of some early versions of continental drift theory is doubtful. It adds content contains information not found in the premises. It is characteristic of inductive inference that the conclusion contains information not found in the premise(s: limited evidence to a broad universal claim, what has been observed to what has not been observed, the past events, leads to. The solution to the problem that bertrand russell proposes in the reading for today. A na ve method: observe the facts - perceiving, generalize from observed facts to empirical laws induction enters, combine laws to form theories.
