Induction And Intuition In Scientific Thought

Author : P B Medawar
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135028257
Total Pages : 79 pages
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Download or read book Induction and Intuition in Scientific Thought written by P B Medawar and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-04-15 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1969. This book explains what is wrong with the traditional methodology of "inductive" reasoning and shows that the alternative scheme of reasoning associated with Whewell, Pierce and Popper can give the scientist a useful insight into the way he thinks.

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Total Pages : 62 pages
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Author : Peter Brian Medawar
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ISBN 13 : 9780415420297
Total Pages : 62 pages
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Download or read book Induction and Intuition in Scientific Thought written by Peter Brian Medawar and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Peter Brian Medawar
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Total Pages : 24 pages
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Download or read book Induction and Intuition in Scientific Thought written by Peter Brian Medawar and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Peter Brian Medawar
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ISBN 13 : 9781422380123
Total Pages : 62 pages
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Download or read book Induction and Intuition in Scientific Thought written by Peter Brian Medawar and published by . This book was released on 2007-11 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why are most scientists completely indifferent to scientific methodology? It is what passes for scientific methodol. is a misrepresentation of what scientists do or ought to do. It is important to explain what is wrong with the traditional methodol. of '¿¿inductive'¿¿ reasoning, & to show that the alternative scheme of reasoning assoc. with the names of Whewell & Peirce & Popper can give the scientist a certain useful insight into the way he thinks. In this alternative scheme, the energizing force of scientific inquiry comes from an imaginative preconception of what might be true -- a preconception which is at once exposed to critical analysis, to find out whether or not the imagined world corresponds with the real one. Scientific inquiry is essentially a dialogue between imaginative insight & critical appraisal; between the possible & the actual; between what could be true & what is in fact the case.

Author : Peter Brian Medawar
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ISBN 13 : 9780871690753
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book Induction and Intuition in Scientific Thought written by Peter Brian Medawar and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why are most scientists indifferent to scientific methodology? The answer: 'because what passes for scientific methodology is a misrepresentation of what scientists do.' This book explores what is wrong with the traditional methodology of 'inductive' reasoning; the alternative scheme of reasoning can give the scientist a certain limited but useful insight into the way he thinks. The force of scientific enquiry comes from a preconception of what might be true -- which is exposed to critical analysis, to find out whether or not the imagined world corresponds with the real one. It is essentially a dialogue between imaginative insight and critical appraisal; between the possible and the actual; between what could be true and what is in fact the case.

Author : Peter Brian Medawar
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Total Pages : 62 pages
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Download or read book Induction and Intuition in Scientific Thought written by Peter Brian Medawar and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Harold Himsworth
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421434776
Total Pages : 82 pages
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Download or read book Scientific Knowledge and Philosophic Thought written by Harold Himsworth and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2019-12-01 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1986. Are there two kinds of problems—the scientific and the philosophic—each requiring different methods for solution? Or are there, rather, two different ways of approaching a problem, each yielding a different answer according to the method used? Biomedical researcher Sir Harold Himsworth urges scientists not to shy away from using scientific methods to grapple with problems traditionally accepted as belonging to the province of philosophy. The difference between science and philosophy lies not in the problems to which they are directed, Himsworth argues, but rather in the methods they use for solving them. To the scientist, a proposition is something to be investigated; to the philosopher, something to be accepted as a basis for thought. Since the development of the scientific method, substantial progress has been made toward mastering problems in the natural environment. If we are ever to attain a degree of control over problems that derive from human activities, Himsworth claims that we only succeed by approaching them in a comparably objective way.

Author : Roger Frantz
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 0387239340
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Two Minds written by Roger Frantz and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-07-02 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As everyone knows, intuition is warm and fuzzy, qualitative, not measurable. Economics, on the other hand, is quantitative, and if it is not a hard science, at least it is the "queen of the social sciences." It is, therefore, intuitively obvious, that intuition and economics are as if oil and water. The problem is, what is intuitively obvious is not always correct. And, there are two major reasons why intuition and economics are not like oil and water. First, economics concerns itself with decision making, and decisions are made in the brain. The human brain is the size of a grapefruit, weighing three pounds with approximately 180 billion neurons, each physically independent but interacting with the other neurons. What we call intuition is, like decision making, a natural information processing function of the brain. Second, despite the current emphasis on quantitative analysis and deductive logic there is a rich history of economists speaking about intuition. First, the human brain, specifically the neocortex, has a left and right hemisphere. The specialized analytical style of the left hemisphere and the specialized intuitive style of the right hemispheres complement each other.

Author : MILLER
Publisher : Birkhäuser
ISBN 13 : 1468405454
Total Pages : 364 pages
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Download or read book Imagery in Scientific Thought Creating 20th-Century Physics written by MILLER and published by Birkhäuser. This book was released on 2013-12-21 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: