Lexicon of Arguments

 Philosophical and Scientific Issues in Dispute
 
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I 54
Experiment/Mayr: one could say that the discoveries by Galileo and his contemporaries were based on experiments "of nature itself". (Earthquakes, solar eclipses, volcanic eruptions).
I 58
Reproducibility, Repeatability of experiments: every ocean current is unique, and yet we can make laws and theories about ocean currents.
>Single case causation, >Causality, >Regularities, >Theories,
>Generalization, >Laws, >Laws of Nature.
I 72
Experiment/Reproducibility/Confirmation/Mayr: e.g. after an earlier researcher found 48 chromosomes, this false result was confirmed by many other researchers. The correct number was 46! This was discovered only after the introduction of new techniques.
>Verification, >Falsification, >Review, >Confirmation,
>Measurements, >Observation.

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