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Single Idea 16944
[filed under theme 14. Science / A. Basis of Science / 3. Experiment
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Full Idea
Sciences differ from common sense only in the degree of methodological sophistication.
Gist of Idea
Science is common sense, with a sophisticated method
Source
Willard Quine (Natural Kinds [1969], p.129)
Book Ref
Quine,Willard: 'Ontological Relativity and Other Essays' [Columbia 1969], p.129
A Reaction
Science is normal thinking about the world, but it is teamwork, with the bar set very high.
The
15 ideas
with the same theme
[deliberate isolation of one cause or effect]:
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12117
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Science moves up and down between inventions of causes, and experiments
[Bacon]
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6603
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Nature is revealed when we put it under pressure rather than observe it
[Bacon]
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3618
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Only experiments can settle disagreements between rival explanations
[Descartes]
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16944
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Science is common sense, with a sophisticated method
[Quine]
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15869
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Reports of experiments eliminate the experimenter, and present results as the behaviour of nature
[Harré]
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7452
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An experiment is a test, or an adventure, or a diagnosis, or a dissection
[Hacking, by PG]
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2454
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We can deliberately cause ourselves to have true thoughts - hence the value of experiments
[Fodor]
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2455
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Interrogation and experiment submit us to having beliefs caused
[Fodor]
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2461
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An experiment is a deliberate version of what informal thinking does all the time
[Fodor]
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2460
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Participation in an experiment requires agreement about what the outcome will mean
[Fodor]
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22172
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Not all sciences are experimental; astronomy relies on careful observation
[Okasha]
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22177
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Randomised Control Trials have a treatment and a control group, chosen at random
[Okasha]
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14351
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Maybe an experiment unmasks an essential disposition, and reveals its regularities
[Corry]
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22139
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Experiments don't just observe; they look to see what interventions change the natural order
[Boulter]
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22357
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The 'experimenter's regress' says success needs reliability, which is only tested by success
[Reiss/Sprenger]
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