30th January 2012, 02:12 PM
P Prentice Wrote:you seem to be confused about what constitutes evidence and what is scientific reasoning jack
surely reasoning includes perspective, modelling, theorising and conjecture
fixating on reactionary doctrine alone is unlikely to advance the state of anyones knowledge
Nah. I meant both.
And yes you are correct, reasoning does include all of those things.
But 'not going beyond the evidence' is neither fixating on reactionary doctrine or limiting in anyway........in fact its far more liberating. Often the actual minutia of the evidence is what disproves a sloppily constructed theory.