“Imagine a skilled botanist accompanied by someone like myself who is largely ignorant of botany taking part in a field trip into the Australian bush, with the objective of collecting observable facts about the native flora. It is undoubtedly the… — Alan F. Chalmers Copy Share Image
“The point is that if the knowledge that provides the categories we use to describe our observations is defective, the observation statements that presuppose those categories are similarly defective.” — Alan F. Chalmers Copy Share Image
“Imagine a skilled botanist accompanied by someone like myself who is largely ignorant of botany taking part in a field trip into the Australian… — Alan F. Chalmers Copy Share Image
“The point is that if the knowledge that provides the categories we use to describe our observations is defective, the observation statements that presuppose… — Alan F. Chalmers Copy Share Image
“One attempt to avoid the problem of induction involves weakening the demand that scientific knowledge be proven true, and resting content with the claim… — Alan F. Chalmers Copy Share Image
“It would seem that the scientific revolution involved not just a progressive transformation of scientific theory, but also a transformation in what were considered… — Alan F. Chalmers Copy Share Image
“A good scientific law or theory is falsifiable just because it makes definite claims about the world. For the falsificationist, If follows fairly readily… — Alan F. Chalmers Copy Share Image
