I think the "scientific method" is something very different for each of
the many scientific disciplines. Clearly the "scientific method" of a
geneticists is something very different from the "scientific method" of
a cosmologist.
AH
On Fri, 02 Sep 2011 14:44 +0200, "Oli Usher" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> On 02/09/2011 12:44, Andrew Robinson wrote:
> > I was meaning to some extent the 'the scientific method' --
> > first hit in google
> > http://www.uic.edu/classes/bios/bios100/labs/scimethod.htm
> This is pretty poor even by the generally laughable definitions of
> 'scientific method' that scientists tend to come up with. I take major
> issue with all five points.
>
> There's a reason why more than a century of thinking by some pretty
> smart people - Kuhn, Popper, Feyerabend, Merton, just to mention a few
> (not that the author of that page feels the need to reference anything)
> - has still not come up with a single, convincing, overarching
> definition of what this 'scientific method' might be.
>
> Oli
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