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No, scientific progress comes from empirically chasing down and disproving false intuitions so that only the few true ones remain. Intuition creates hypothesis
by gnaritas 11y ago
No, scientific progress comes from empirically chasing down and disproving false intuitions so that only the few true ones remain. Intuition creates hypothesis, empiricism makes them useful since nearly all intuitions are wrong. It's the empiricists that deserve the credit, they are why science works and of course are generally the ones with the intuitions that are correct as well.
And you can't say vitalists were right, they've made no predictions: calling something magic woo woo isn't a hypothesis that can be proven right.
- JoeAltmaier 11y agoWhich begs the question: where did the correct intuitions come from? Can't be random; there are billions of wrong ideas and only 1 right one. So some weight has to be given to intuitions, and some props to those who had the right ones. Because that's how progress gets made.
- gnaritas 11y ago> Which begs the question: where did the correct intuitions come from? Logic. > Can't be random; there are billions of wrong ideas and only 1 right one. It's not random, it's deductions based on previously known truths. > So some weight has to be given to intuitions, and some props to those who had the right ones. Because that's how progress gets made. Props are given to those people, they're called scientists. There are no correct intuitions from the vitalists, they're claim is magic... that's not in any way useful.