12117 | Science moves up and down between inventions of causes, and experiments [Bacon] |
6603 | Nature is revealed when we put it under pressure rather than observe it [Bacon] |
3618 | Only experiments can settle disagreements between rival explanations [Descartes] |
16944 | Science is common sense, with a sophisticated method [Quine] |
15869 | Reports of experiments eliminate the experimenter, and present results as the behaviour of nature [Harré] |
7452 | An experiment is a test, or an adventure, or a diagnosis, or a dissection [Hacking, by PG] |
2461 | An experiment is a deliberate version of what informal thinking does all the time [Fodor] |
2454 | We can deliberately cause ourselves to have true thoughts - hence the value of experiments [Fodor] |
2455 | Interrogation and experiment submit us to having beliefs caused [Fodor] |
2460 | Participation in an experiment requires agreement about what the outcome will mean [Fodor] |
22172 | Not all sciences are experimental; astronomy relies on careful observation [Okasha] |
22177 | Randomised Control Trials have a treatment and a control group, chosen at random [Okasha] |
14351 | Maybe an experiment unmasks an essential disposition, and reveals its regularities [Corry] |
22139 | Experiments don't just observe; they look to see what interventions change the natural order [Boulter] |
22357 | The 'experimenter's regress' says success needs reliability, which is only tested by success [Reiss/Sprenger] |