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On the Existence and Uniqueness of the Scientific Method

The ultimate utility of science is widely agreed upon: the comprehension of reality. But there is much controversy about what scientific understanding actually means, and how we should proceed in order to gain new scientific understanding. Is there a method for acquiring new scientific knowledge? Is...

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Autor principal: Wagensberg, Jorge
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Netherlands 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4131153/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25132810
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13752-014-0166-y
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spelling pubmed-41311532014-08-14 On the Existence and Uniqueness of the Scientific Method Wagensberg, Jorge Biol Theory Long Article The ultimate utility of science is widely agreed upon: the comprehension of reality. But there is much controversy about what scientific understanding actually means, and how we should proceed in order to gain new scientific understanding. Is there a method for acquiring new scientific knowledge? Is this method unique and universal? There has been no shortage of proposals, but neither has there been a shortage of skeptics about these proposals. This article proffers for discussion a potential scientific method that aspires to be unique and universal and is rooted in the recent and ancient history of scientific thinking. Curiously, conclusions can be inferred from this scientific method that also concern education and the transmission of science to others. Springer Netherlands 2014-04-02 2014 /pmc/articles/PMC4131153/ /pubmed/25132810 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13752-014-0166-y Text en © The Author(s) 2014 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits any use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author(s) and the source are credited.
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