Re: [PEIRCE-L] The auhor's claim: There is no *distinctly* scientific method

2016-07-06 Thread Jerry Rhee
John C, Gary R, Peirce-list: Are those things you say or things Peirce says of scientific method? Thanks, Jerry R On Wed, Jul 6, 2016 at 1:56 PM, Gary Richmond wrote: > Olga, John, list, > > Thank you for your thoughts in this matter, Olga. It is so nice to see you > on peirce-l, and I'll look

Re: [PEIRCE-L] The auhor's claim: There is no *distinctly* scientific method

2016-07-06 Thread Gary Richmond
Olga, John, list, Thank you for your thoughts in this matter, Olga. It is so nice to see you on peirce-l, and I'll look forward to future posts from you. Indeed, your first post has already elicited this, in my opinion, excellent outline by John Collier. John, thank you for this excellently well

RE: [PEIRCE-L] The auhor's claim: There is no *distinctly* scientific method

2016-07-06 Thread John Collier
Dear Olga, List, Science has both advantages and limitations due to its method. On the advantage side, one can come up with ideas galore, but to be accepted as scientific they have to be tested and alternative explanations of the phenomena be shown to not provide an explanation. This requires t