Reason and Nature: an Essay on the Meaning of Scientific Method?

Reasoning Alone Cannot Decipher the World

By no amount of reasoning can we altogether eliminate all contingency from our world. Moreover, pure speculation alone will not enable us to get a determinate picture of the existing world. We must eliminate some of the conflicting possibilities, and this can be brought about only by experiment and observation.

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• epiricism
• experiment