Sherlock Holmes, the fictional sleuth who famously resides on Baker Street, is known for his impressive powers of logical reasoning. With a quick visual sweep of a crime scene, he generates hypotheses ...

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Scientists do not confirm hypotheses, they may only corroborate or decisively refute them. —excerpted from The Logic of Scientific discovery (London: Hutchinson, 1959) by Karl Popper A scientist, ...

LET me begin by removing misapprehensions. I did not, as Prof. J. B. S. Haldane suggests, attack Prof. E. A. Milne and Sir Arthur Eddington: “Milne”, “Eddington” and “Dirac” were merely symbols to ...

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IN the few remarks which I communicated to this journal (vol. xxvii. p. 554) under the above heading, I protested against the deductive method used in a purely literary manner as a mischievous way of ...