Abstract
The whole point of science is to uncover the “truth”. How do we go about deciding something is true? We have two tools as our disposal to pursue scientific inquiry:
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We have our senses — through which we experience the world and make observations.
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We have the ability to reason — which enables us to make logical inferences.
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In science we impose logic on those observations.
“Science is built up with facts, as a house is with stones. But a collection of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house.”
Jules Henri Poincare
La Science et l’Hypothese (1908)
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Wassertheil-Smoller, S. (1990). The Scientific Method. In: Biostatistics and Epidemiology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-3887-2_1
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