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Histories of science put the spotlight on discovery... The story of scientific progress reaches its periodic climaxes at the moments of discovery... In the philosophy of science, all the emphasis is on verification, on how we can tell the true gold of scientific law from the fool’s gold of untested fantasy. In fact, it is still the majority view among philosophers of science that only verification is a proper subject of inquiry, that nothing of philosophical interest can be said about the process of discovery... (en) |
