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The Scientific Method is meant to answer questions based on observation and experimentation.
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What is Feyerabend advocating when he says that science should be separate from the state ju...
In the closing chapter of "Against Method", Feyerabend states that:
"Science is neither a single tradition, nor the best tradition there is, except for people who have become accustomed to its pre …
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Can one speak unambiguously of "the" scientific method?
When people in general discuss science, they talk about the scientific method as if it were a fixed and universally agreed-upon principle. In a show I saw recently by Neil DeGrasse Tyson, he explicitl …
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How is Lakatos's hard core of theoretical assumptions different than Kuhn's paradigm?
Listening to a course on philosophy of science, Lakatos was presented as a middle way between Popper and the positivists strictly rational description of scientific theories and Kuhn's historical/soci …
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Explanation vs. prediction in statistics and in the philosophy of science?
In the realm of statistics and machine learning, a lot of discussion has arisen recently around the difference between explaining and predicting: That the two are not the same, and that the difference …
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Is Feyerabend confusing discovery and justification when he criticizes the scientific method?
I am reading Feyerabend's "Against Method", where he uses Copernicus's (and Galileo's confirmation) discovery of the fact that the Earth orbits around the Sun and other examples to show that irrationa …
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