File spoon-archives/phillitcrit.archive/phillitcrit_1997/phillitcrit.9709, message 77


Date: Tue, 10 Sep 1996 10:35:22 +0900
From: Michael Greer <michael-AT-sdt820.chonju-tc.ac.kr>
Subject: PLC: Science or Poetry?


Any discussion of science should take place within the context of
Hempel's work on induction. Doesn't his position show that the
hypothetical-deductive approach to questions concerning phenomena
relies on the trope of invention: we simply make up something and then
see if the data cohere with that something. "Confirmation" is then
what takes place when all the necessary "evidence" have been
organized to harmonize with the "hypothesis". This is not a statement:
it's a request for clarification.

Michael Greer

   

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