file.newsgroup.med.59192 Maven / Gradle / Ivy
From: [email protected] (Kristoffer Eriksson)
Subject: Re: Science and methodology (was: Homeopathy ... tradition?)
In article <[email protected]> [email protected] (Russell Turpin) writes:
> My definition is this: Science is the investigation of the empirical
>that avoids mistakes in reasoning and methodology discovered from previous
>work.
Reading this definition, I wonder: when should you recognize something
as being a "mistake"? It seems to me, that proponents of pseudo-sciences
might have their own ideas of what constitutes a "mistake" and which
discoveries of such previous mistakes they accept.
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