DANC 010AD Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Inductive Reasoning, Scientific Method, Animism
27 Jul 2020
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The formulation of the first laws of physics. Principia mathematica: the book in which newton presented his laws of physics (1687); considered to be the primary reason for the increased status of science. Proposals to ground society in the natural sciences. ; the name given to the western philosophy and cultural life of the eighteenth century, in which autonomous thinking and observation became advocated as the primary sources of knowledge, rather than reliance on authority. Positivism: view that authentic knowledge can only be obtained by means of the scientific method; saw religion and philosophy as inferior forms of explanation. Scientific theories are summaries of observations and ,therefore, are always correct as well. The humanities: academic disciplines that continued the traditional study of the ancients classics, increasingly supplemented with the teachings of the contemporary literature and art. They were the continuation of the medieval and renaissance teachings.
