Speculation: Wild and sound |
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Authors: | Mario Bunge |
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Institution: | Foundations and Philosophy of Science Unit, McGill University, Montreal, Canada H3A 1W7 |
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Abstract: | There is no original research without guessing or speculation. However, in science there are constraints on speculation: the latter must harmonize with the bulk of background knowledge and it must be testable in some way or other. In other words, it is false that in science “anything goes”, as epistemological anarchism claims. |
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