Story 1What makes an inquiry scientific?
Bacon — Organized exclusion instead of hasty generalization
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What changes when observations are designed to eliminate possible explanations rather than collect favorite examples?
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Bacon replaces hasty ascent from a few cases with tables of presence, absence, and degree that progressively exclude candidate natures.
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Francis Bacon
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Locator: §5.1 The Idols; §5.2 The System of Sciences and the method of induction
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His analysis of the idols examines recurring sources of error in human nature, individual formation, language, and inherited systems.
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Francis Bacon
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Locator: §5.1 The Idols
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