about the scientific method.

As another guy said:"Get the board out of your eye before doing the eye of another guy." Or something like that.

This is a realy good thing to discuss but I never before found anyone to discuss it with.. the most important thing when researching is to be critical just as you said. I mean, It was critisism that turned the world from being a plate to a sphere.
During my diskussions with myself about this I came up with this.
Even though the great advances of our time we can not be totaly sure it´s the way we thing, the earth might not even be round, It´s just wery likely as we see it now..

This brings me to another question.. will mankind ever reach the end of science, If there even is one. Or is science the only thing that goes on into infinity.. (by "the end" I mean the state where we got nothing left to find out..)

There are a lot of things that need fixing in science so why wonder where the end is? Just do it and enjoy the trip.

There is another approach to the Scientific Method, and that is that it is identical to the method of Critical Rationlism.

This method, which comes from Karl Popper (see <u>Realism and the Aim of Science</u>, particularlly the preface) goes something like this:

1. Devise a conjecture to explain what you wish to explain

The method of how this conjecture is devised is not limited in any way. Educated guess, accident, mythical and mystical influences are all accepted.

2. Criticize this conjecture as strongly as possible

The method of what criticisms are acceptable and which are not, be it simple logical criticisms or the results of an experiment, is also not limited.

3. Continue to refine and criticize all conjectures, ideas, notions, and myths that may exist, in the hopes that we may come closer to truth.

While all along, the idea that Truth can be ultimately found isn't assumed.

To accurately paraphrase Popper, he states that the so-called scientific method doesn't literally exist, and that the method of critical rationalism is the best we can do.

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