Clues to the Puzzle of Scientific Evidence

Vol 5, No 1-2 (2001) • Principia: an international journal of epistemology

Autor: Susan Haack

Abstract:

The evidence with respect to scientific claims is like empirical eviderwe generally — only more so: more complex, more dependent on instruments, etc., and usually a shared resource. Warranted scientific claims are always warranted by somebody's, or somebodies', experience, and somebody's or, somebodies', reasoning; so a theory of warrant must begin with the personal and then move to the social before it can get to grips with the impersonal sense in which we speak of a well-warranted claim or ill-founded conjecture.

ISSN: 1414-4217

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5007/%25x

Texto Completo: https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/principia/article/view/17774/16356

Palavras-Chave: Scientific evidence; experimental evidence vs

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