HPS250H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Methodology, Spheroid, Fallibilism
17 Apr 2016
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Next lecture: emmanuel college in the basement. Hps250 lecture 11: there is redundancy to his theory (do you really need 3 aspects?, values. Demonstrative truth (can"t you formulate this as a method that"s : accepted demonstratively true theories) High empirical content (can"t you formulate this as a method as : accept theories with greater empirical content) Methodology: rules that openly prescribed by the community as the correct way of doing science. Methods: actual (implicit) expectations of the scientific community. Note: it"s not the methodology but the methods that are important. From these above, it was found that in laudan"s reticulate model (methodological change), he referred to methods as: methodology. This is revealed through his criteria: we discover that actual scientific practice is at odds with the criteria we openly profess. Lauan"s reticulated model focuses on changes in methodology although the actual job of. Scientific change is a transition from one accepted theory to another or from one.
