Jakich hipotez nie stawiał Isaac Newton?

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Jakich hipotez nie stawiał Isaac Newton?

Journal Title: Annales Universitatis Mariae Curie-Sklodowska, Sectio I Philosophia-Sociologia - Year 2010, Vol 35, Issue 2

Abstract

Logical empiricists, Popper and Lakatos claimed that making science consists in inventing and verifying hypotheses and theories. The process of inventing hypotheses was to remain outside the reach of logical analysis. Procedures of empirical testing, which resulted in taking the rational decision to accept or reject or modify a hypothesis were to be logically reconstructed. Contrary to the image Isaac Newton argued that hypotheses „have no place in [science]. In [science] particular propositions are inferred from the phaenomena, and afterwords rendered general by induction. Thus it was that […] the laws of motion and of gravitation were discovered” (1713). From the standpoint of Ludwik Fleck’s theory of thought collectives and thought styles, Newton was wrong, but not quite. The law of gravity was in fact deduced, and the process of deduction can be logically reconstructed. But Newton’s premisses were not phenomena alone: these were sentences describing the phenomena and active assumptions of the thought style that Newton – not being aware of it – inherited from the thought collective he belonged to.

Authors and Affiliations

Wojciech Sady

Keywords

hipoteza naukowiec Isaac Newton styl myślowy poznanie prawo grawitacji indukcja

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