%DIFDELCMD < %DIFDELCMD < %%% He developed a criterion for distinguishing scientific from unreliable metaphysical reasoning. He called that criterion “demarcation,” measured by the degree to which a conjecture or theory is testable. A situationis an event in which a theory has failed a test, prompting reasoning to replace the failed conjecture. “… there is no such thing as an unprejudiced observation. All observation is an activity with an aim (to find, or to check, some regularity which is ‘’at least’’ vaguely conjectured);… .…. There is no such thing as a perception except in the context of interests and expectations, and hence of regularities or ‘’laws’’.
<coherence> %DIFDELCMD < %DIFDELCMD < %%% He developed a criterion for distinguishing scientific from unreliable metaphysical reasoning. He called that criterion “demarcation,” measured by the degree to which a conjecture or theory is testable. A situationis an event in which a theory has failed a test, prompting reasoning to replace the failed conjecture. “… there is no such thing as an unprejudiced observation. All observation is an activity with an aim (to find, or to check, some regularity which is ‘’at least’’ vaguely conjectured);… .…. There is no such thing as a perception except in the context of interests and expectations, and hence of regularities or ‘’laws’’.
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