Sentences with phrase «philosophers of science claim»
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The heretical philosopher of science Paul Feyerabend, on the other hand, claimed that new theories frequently contradict the best available evidence — at least at first.
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«From its earliest days, science has been associated with institutions — the Accademia del Lincei, founded in 1609, the Royal Society of Britian, founded in 1660, the Académie des Sciences in France, founded in 1666 — because scholars (savants and natural philosophers as they were variously called before the 19th century invention of the word «scientist») understood that to create new knowledge they needed a means to test each other's claims.
That may have been a claim of some 18th century philosophers but it is certainly not the intellectual driving force behind modern science.