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Velikovsky Versus Academic Lag (The Problem of Hypothesis)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2022

A. M. Paterson
A. M. Paterson*
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State University of New York, College at Buffalo
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Professor E. A. Burtt suggested that we might add “tertiary” qualities to our primary and secondary qualities when we undertake an analysis of reality. These tertiary qualities are the ones embodied in the human institutions of the world. He suggests that we may be arranging nature with our methodologies due to main conditions in us rather than due to main conditions in nature. Nothing can provide the satisfactory generalized concept of the world that does not entail extensive historical analysis of the major factors that have conditioned us, according to Burtt. The new cosmology would hardly be worth the effort, if it were merely the synthesis of scientific data or the logical criticism of the basic assumptions of that data, for Burtt Sound insight must supplement scientific data and its assumptions, through the reasoned expression of the intellectual insight of all the ages.

Type
Symposium: Velikovsky and the Politics of Science
Information
PSA: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association , Volume 1974 , 1974 , pp. 487 - 498
Copyright
Copyright © 1976 by D. Reidel Publishing Company, Dordrecht-Holland

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