Darwin‘s Method: Induction, Deduction, or Synthesis?
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From Becquerel's uranium rock to Newton's proverbial rock and Fleming's serendipitous observation of penicillin, the way science is done has come to be associated often with a romanticized but highly suspect notion of objectivity. This may very well be the effect on science of inductivism and the bold claim of the proponents of inductivism that science could not possibly lead to any kind of truthful explanation of the world around us without it. The questions any historian of science must then ask are: to what extent does objectivity, as surely as it is the hallmark of science, lead to the best scientific discoveries and further, how do we weight the role of accident, hunch, intuition, experimenters' bias in the role of science especially if they happen to lead us to the right conclusion?
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