The Pros And Cons Of The Traditional View
1 In response to this problem, defenders of the Traditional View argue that if we were able to take into account every confounding factor and sum them all, we would indeed get a perfectly accurate prediction, even if this is almost never a practical possibility.
2 If both premises are true, then they guarantee that the conclusion (3) must also be true, and what better explanation for a phenomenon could we expect than a demonstration of why the phenomenon is guaranteed to happen given the initial conditions? The explanation becomes a prediction if we know the initial conditions but have not yet observed the results.
3 In our example above, careful measurement can support the truth of the first premise because it is a description of a single …show more content…
30 If we want to know why the object accelerated in that way, we can explain it using Newton’s second law of motion.
31 What I am calling the “Traditional View” is just the most dominant thread.
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33 Further, the critics argue that contemporary accounts of science deny that science aims to supply incontrovertible truths, thus undermining the need for laws of nature in the first place (e.
34 Mitchell, 1997; Woodward and Hitchcock, 2003; Machamer, Darden and Craver, 2000).
35 A famous example: Even the past observation of ten thousand swans, all of which are completely white, is no guarantee that the next next swan observed will not be black.
36 According to the Traditional Views of science going at least as far back as Aristotle, science is able to supply some incontrovertible truths about nature.
37 That is, if the premises of a deductive argument are true, the s conclusion is guaranteed to be
2 If both premises are true, then they guarantee that the conclusion (3) must also be true, and what better explanation for a phenomenon could we expect than a demonstration of why the phenomenon is guaranteed to happen given the initial conditions? The explanation becomes a prediction if we know the initial conditions but have not yet observed the results.
3 In our example above, careful measurement can support the truth of the first premise because it is a description of a single …show more content…
30 If we want to know why the object accelerated in that way, we can explain it using Newton’s second law of motion.
31 What I am calling the “Traditional View” is just the most dominant thread.
32 g.
33 Further, the critics argue that contemporary accounts of science deny that science aims to supply incontrovertible truths, thus undermining the need for laws of nature in the first place (e.
34 Mitchell, 1997; Woodward and Hitchcock, 2003; Machamer, Darden and Craver, 2000).
35 A famous example: Even the past observation of ten thousand swans, all of which are completely white, is no guarantee that the next next swan observed will not be black.
36 According to the Traditional Views of science going at least as far back as Aristotle, science is able to supply some incontrovertible truths about nature.
37 That is, if the premises of a deductive argument are true, the s conclusion is guaranteed to be