Books, Brochures, and Chapters>Book: Russell , Bertrand (2009-03-02), The Scientific Outlook, Taylor & Francis, Retrieved on 2012-06-21Source Material [books.google.com]
Folksonomies: science Memes
21 JUN 2012
Fire Burns
The first man who said 'fire burns' was employing scientific method, at any rate if he had allowed himself to b e burnt several times. This man had already passed through the two stages of observation and generalization. He had not, however, what scientific technique demands—a careful choice of significant facts on the one hand, and, on the other hand, various means of arriving at laws otherwise than my mere generalization.Folksonomies: science scientific method
Folksonomies: science scientific method
Is a scientific conclusion, but an overly general one.