According to the now-defunct school of Logical Positivism, science ought to
proceed according to the hypothetico-deductive and deductive-nomological
methods. These methods are carefully thought out, rigorously specified, and
utterly unhelpful.
The third purpose of philosophy is to invent ever longer names for things
which are ever less likely to exist.
copyright 1991, 2023 Jay J.P. Scott
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