| Alan L. Mackay - 1991 - 312 pagine
...Progren and Parentage 1912, University of London, University College Eugenics Laboratory, 2nd edn 34 The unity of all science consists alone in its method, not in its material. The Grammar of Science 1911 (London: A fe C Black) Benjamin Peirce 1809-1880 35 Mathematics... | |
| Julie A. Reuben - 1996 - 375 pagine
...progressivist view of science. Pearson emphasized the method of scientific inquiry rather than its content. "The field of science is unlimited; its material is...unity of all science consists alone in its method, not its material." He saw science as a form of mental and moral discipline. He believed that "inculcating... | |
| Harold Jeffreys - 1998 - 474 pagine
...that when once it has become a habit of mind, that mind converts all facts whatsoever into science. The field of science is unlimited ; its material is endless, every group of natural phenomena, t Physics, The Elements, 1920, p. 9. every phase of social life, every stage of past or present development... | |
| Roger Luckhurst, Josephine McDonagh - 2002 - 254 pagine
...converts all facts whatsoever into science. The field of science is unlimited; its solid contents are endless, every group of natural phenomena, every phase...unity of all science consists alone in its method, not its material. 4 ' This universalising scientific method — the goal of which is accurately to describe... | |
| Stephen Turner - 2003 - 174 pagine
...that when once it has become a habit of mind, that mind converts all facts whatsoever into science. The field of science is unlimited; its material is...past or present development is material for science. (Pearson [1892)1937:16 quoted in Conant 1947: 112 nl) These were the sentiments of Comte, into whose... | |
| Stephen Turner - 2003 - 168 pagine
...that when once it has become a habit of mind, that mind converts all facts whatsoever into scienceThe field of science is unlimited; its material is endless,...past or present development is material for science. (Pearson [189211937:16 quoted in Conant 1947: 112 nl) These were the sentiments of Comte, into whose... | |
| Karl Pearson - 2004 - 424 pagine
...that when once it has become a habit of mind, that mind converts all facts whatsoever into science. The field of science is unlimited; its material is...all science consists alone in its method, not in its material. The man who classifies facts of any kind whatever, who sees their mutual relation and describes... | |
| Anne Norton - 2004 - 162 pagine
...results of research but to these rules alone. They quote approvingly from a nineteenth-century paean, "The field of science is unlimited; its material is...all science consists alone in its method, not in its material." 104 Science figures here as a universal tool that can be brought to bear on any material.... | |
| Colin Aitken, Franco Taroni - 2004 - 544 pagine
...here applied to forensic circumstances. Karl Pearson was both perceptive and correct when he said that ‘the unity of all science consists alone in its method, not in its material'. Science is a way of understanding and influencing the world in which we live. In this view... | |
| James W. Davis - 2005 - 300 pagine
...of science maintain that its claim to special status is based on it method. As Karl Pearson wrote: "The field of science is unlimited; its material is...unity of all science consists alone in its method, not its material." 132 Through adherence to specific rules of inference, fact can be distinguished from... | |
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