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Single Idea 2454
[filed under theme 14. Science / A. Basis of Science / 3. Experiment
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Full Idea
A creature that knows what makes its thoughts true and what would cause it to have them, could therefore cause itself to have true thoughts. …This would explain why experimentation is so close to the heart of our cognitive style.
Gist of Idea
We can deliberately cause ourselves to have true thoughts - hence the value of experiments
Source
Jerry A. Fodor (The Elm and the Expert [1993], §4)
Book Ref
Fodor,Jerry A.: 'The Elm and the Expert' [MIT 1995], p.92
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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