Inquiry Blog • http://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2015/03/10/scientific-attitude-1/
Peirce List JA:http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.science.philosophy.peirce/15803 ET:http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.science.philosophy.peirce/15804 Edwina, List, I hope no one thinks I was trying to write anything novel or shocking in my little SA. I merely aimed to summarize the precepts that a long chain of preceptors have handed down to us regarding what forms the bare bones of the SA. That first line you quibble with is stock in trade for scientific method. No one says you have to buy it, but you quibble with a broad consensus. And you appear to have a different definition of "chance" than any I know. A pattern of results not significantly different from those predicted by the null hypothesis are what we call "chance" in scientific inference and yet results of that ilk are most annoyingly and eminently reproducible. Regards, Jon On 3/10/2015 10:54 AM, Edwina Taborsky wrote: > I will quibble with Jon's view that > > "scientific knowledge rests on results that are reproducible". > > I would consider that to refer to 'mechanical knowledge' (Secondness) > for the scientific approach acknowledges the reality, which also means > the 'probability-to-be-actual' (Secondness), as Peirce insisted, of > 'chance, freedom' or Firstness. > > Chance events are never, by definition, reproducible. Only mechanical > processes are such, and scientific knowledge has to acknowledge the > reality of all three modes, not just those that are in Secondness and > Thirdness (, as Jon also pointed out with reference to Thirdness ... > "It is knowledge of particulars in general terms". ) > > We can of course, quibble over what is 'knowledge' > and what is 'approach, attitude and so on' but I'm > not into needles-on-a-pin. > > Edwina > -- academia: http://independent.academia.edu/JonAwbrey my word press blog: http://inquiryintoinquiry.com/ inquiry list: http://stderr.org/pipermail/inquiry/ isw: http://intersci.ss.uci.edu/wiki/index.php/JLA oeiswiki: http://www.oeis.org/wiki/User:Jon_Awbrey facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/JonnyCache
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