Ernest Sosa Quotes About Observation

Quotes about: Observation

• There is no need for the scientist to go into whether an observation was made, nor into the who, what, when, or where. The data on which scientific theorizing is based are rather the propositional contents of the instrument readings recorded, or the facts detected thereby.

  Ernest Sosa

  Reading, Data, Needs

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• When there are conflicts of observation, when experiments cannot be replicated, scientists may then retreat to a study of the various specific observations so as to explain the conflict, in the course of which they would make use of the concept of observation, or of some specification of that concept.

  Ernest Sosa

  Use, May, Retreat

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

• The concept of intuition is more often used in philosophical theorizing than is the concept of observation in scientific theorizing (proportionately). One reason is that there is (proportionately) more ostensible conflict of philosophical intuitions than there is ostensible conflict of scientific observations. So much for the use of a concept of intuition in philosophical theorizing.

  Ernest Sosa

  Philosophical, Intuition, Use

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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