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Full Idea
The metaphysical principles that allow the scientist to learn from experience are scholastic, not Humean or Kantian or those of twentieth-century positivism.
Gist of Idea
Science rests on scholastic metaphysics, not on Hume, Kant or Carnap
Source
Stephen Boulter (Why Medieval Philosophy Matters [2019], 2)
Book Ref
Boulter,Stephen: 'Why Medieval Philosophy Matters' [Bloomsbury 2019], p.55
A Reaction
Love this. Most modern philosophers of science would be deeply outraged by this, but I reckon that careful and open-minded interviews with scientists would prove it to be correct. We want to know the essential nature of electrons.