AG 116AD Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Wilhelm Dilthey, Personal Unconscious, Verificationism

• School: College of The Sequoias
• Department: AG - Agriculture
• Course: AG 116AD
• Professor: Birdnis

Document Summary

Too much concern about the scientific method may interfere with the process itself. Presentism depicting and interpreting events of the past in the light of present-day ideas. Science is based on observable facts/thoughts about information acquisition from ancient greece to the end of the 19th century. Rise of the scientific approach: from deductive reasoning to inductive reasoning. Convince audience that new way of thinking is close to traditional deductive reasoning and demonstration: bacon: systematic observations, collection of a large number of facts in a mechanical way. Natural philosophers: inductive reasoning can lead to observations that are most likely true when collecting a large number of observations without prejudice, when results can be replicated and new verifiable predictions can be made. Huygens: verify principles from their effects when a great number of phenomena in line with the principles are collected, truth particularly probable when new predictions can be made and verified.