HIST-1107EL Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Euclidean Geometry, Scientific Method, Christiaan Huygens
15 Dec 2020
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: ancient greece to the 19 t h century. Science"s claim of superiority is based on 4 principles: realism, objectivity, truth, rationality. Plato: strong rationalist vies, rely on reason, human perception is fallible, innate knowledge. Pyrrho of ellis (360-275 bc): scepticism= doesn"t deny the existence of a physical reality but denies that humans can have reliable knowledge of it, influenced western thought. Augustine (354-430 ce): dominant view in middle ages up until 17th century, reconciled aristotle"s logic w/ christian theology, true knowledge is based on god"s revelations. Interaction between theory and experiment: the s cientific revolution. Probalistic reasoning and the ascent of the hypotheses. One of the first people to explicitly defend the virtues of inductive logic was christiaan. This became known as probalistic reasoning, a similar message was defended by. The aim wasn"t absolute truth but truth beyond a reasonable doubt. John herschel (1792-1871) wrote preliminary discourse on the study of natural philosophy:
