... the main philosopher to start a controversy regarding the validity of the origination of all general scientific knowledge. His arguments against the use of various methods were answered and developed by Popper, which were then superseded by Kuhn and the Austrian born Feyerabend. Hume recognized the weakness of using the method of scientific induction as a source of knowledge. Byinduction?, I refer to the theory that when a being observes the activity of a group of ... ? is the correct way of looking at the world. What is a paradigm? A paradigm is the way society views the world as a whole...

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... he noticed they kept the same time swinging backwards and forwards. For this reason, there is a working clock today, that allows people to keep time every where. He also worked on many other projects, he " built a thermoscope. He devised and constructed a geometrical and military compass, and wrote a handbook which describes how to use this instrument. In 1594 he obtained the patent for a machine to raise ... he was also able to invent the microscope. Galileo through out his career worked on and defended many theories. One theory that he was a big believer in defending was the Copernica...

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... maintained geocentrism (Machamer 35). In 1597, his friend, Jacopo Mazzoni, a philosopher, published a book against the motion of the Earth. Mazzoni made some illogical assumptions about how visible the heavens would be if the Earth truly moved. These assumptions were, of course, based on the works of Aristotle. Galileo wrote to him to correct his errors by using simple geometry (Machamer 29). It is suspected ... his model all night (Levinger 13). ?At that moment, the controlled experiment of the laboratory, as we know it today, was born? (Levinger 13). Regardless of the amount of truth c...

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