28 JAN 2012 by ideonexus
Robert Boyle's Definition of a Good Hypothesis
The Requisites of a good Hypothesis are:
That It be Intelligible.
That It neither Assume nor Suppose anything Impossible, unintelligible, or demonstrably False.
That It be consistent with Itself.
That It be lit and sufficient to Explicate the Phaenomena, especially the chief.
That It be, at least, consistent, with the rest of the Phaenomena It particularly relates to, and do not contradict any other known Phaenomena of nature, or manifest Physical Truth.
The Qualities and Conditions of...Folksonomies: hypothesis
Folksonomies: hypothesis
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notesA list of traits for good hypotheses and a list for excellent hypotheses.
17 JUN 2011 by ideonexus
An 11th Century View of Science
The chief aids to philosophical inquiry and the practice of virtue are reading, learning, meditation, and assiduous application. Reading scrutinizes the written subject matter immediately before it. Learning likewise generally studies what is written, but also sometimes moves on to what is preserved in the archives of the memory and is not in the writing, or to those things that become evident when one understands the given subject. Meditation, however, reaches out farther to what is unknown,... 1 notes
notesScience is a prerequisite to virtue, requiring study, application, and meditation dependent on grammar.
10 JAN 2011 by TGAW
Sarajevo and the Importance of Trees
Do whatever you can to stop the killing, to bring about peace, and then bring us trees.Folksonomies: trees
Folksonomies: trees
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notesIn 1992, the city of Sarajevo had 26,111 trees. Three years of war later, only 6,117 remained. Kemal Kurspahic, the editor in chief of a Sarajevo newspaper, articulated the importance of trees in the city. His first wish was for peace. The second thing on his list-- trees.
