Monday, March 18, 2013

Baconian method reject the creative use of hypotheses?

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Why does Baconian method reject the creative use of hypotheses?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baconian_me…

"The Baconian method is the investigative method developed by Sir Francis Bacon. "

"This method was influential upon the development of scientific method in modern science; but also more generally in the early modern rejection of medieval Aristotelianism."

Isaac Newton, a noted Baconian, used such principles in the Philosophy section of his Principia, writing "hypotheses non fingo" (I don't make hypotheses). He also wrote in his Optiks that "hypotheses have no place in experimental science."


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