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Originally Posted by CraigS
This is great !! A juicy bit for everyone !! ...
" Methodology of Science:
Basically, there are two different methodologies to study Nature, both inherited from different ways of thinking in ancient Greece:
The mathematical deductive method: This is the method thought by Pythagoras and Plato. The pure relations of numbers in Arithmetic and Geometry are the immutable reality behind changing appearances in the world of the senses. We cannot reach the truth through observation with the senses, but only through pure reason ...
The empirical inductive method: This is the method thought by Anaxagoras of how to know Nature. Aristotle uses both inductive and deductive methods, and he says that “the mathematical method is not the method of the physicists, because Nature, perhaps all, involves matter” (Meta- physics, book II). Matter and not numbers or mathematics. Nature should be known through observations and extrapolations of them."
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And here's the clincher....you can't do science without either of them....you need both.
Corredoira fancies himself as some kind of philosopher, when he should stick to doing science.
He most certainly has an axe to grind....a rather large one to be precise. Corredoira has had a number of papers rejected, not because the subjects were controversial but because the science wasn't sound enough. Like Arp and some others, he's been known to jump the gun on certain topics.
He's only a young guy (only had his PhD for 13 years), still needs some seasoning
Being Spaniard...maybe a dash of tabasco and a few chillies