The origins of modern science lie in a period of rapid scientific development that occurred in Europe between 1500 and 1750, which we now refer to as the scientific revolution (查看原文)
human mind is in some respects similar to a computer, and thus that human mental processes can be understand by comparing them to he operations computers carry out (查看原文)
In general, scientists do not just abandon their theories whenever they conflicts with the observation data. Usually they look for ways of eliminating the conflict without having to give up their theory. (查看原文)
Although it id not possible to prove that a scientific theory is true from a limited data sample, it is possible to prove that a theory is false. (查看原文)
the task of providing an account of scientific explanation then becomes the task of characterizing precisely the relation that must hold between a set of premisses and a conclusion, in order for the former to count as an explanation of the latter. (查看原文)
