08 OCT 2013 by ideonexus
The Primitive Scientific Mind
There is no sort of savage so low as not to have a kind of science of cause and effect. But primitive man was not very critical in his associations of cause with effect; he very easily connected an effect with something quite wrong as its cause. “You do so and so,” he said, “and so and so happens.” You give a child a poisonous berry and it dies. You eat the heart of a valiant enemy and you become strong. There we have two bits of cause and effect association, one true one false. We ca...Folksonomies: scientific method cognition
Folksonomies: scientific method cognition
It was concerned with cause and effect, but established many wrong connections.