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#scientific-reasoning
Baconian Method - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
Bacon's idols of the mind
Bacon also listed what he called the idols (false images) of the mind. He described these as things which obstructed the path of correct scientific reasoning. Idols of the Tribe (Idola tribus): This is humans' tendency to perceive more order and regularity in systems than truly…
Micropublications: A Semantic Model For Claims, Evidence, Arguments And Annotations In Biomedical Communications
Scientific publications as defeasible arguments
Our model is based on understanding scientific publications as arguments, which present a narrative of experi- ments or observations, the data obtained, and a reasoned interpretation (“finding”) of the data’s meaning [38]. Such arguments present a line of reasoning, to a “best”…