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To those attempting to understand the knowledge-seeking and knowledge-acquiring enterprise — to understand how we should go about trying to get knowledge, and what it is that we have if we get it — one of the major lessons of science in the twentieth century is this:
The results of scientific investigation could not have been anticipated by common sense, by the suggestions of everyday experience, or by pure reason.
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Shapere, D. (1987). Method in the Philosophy of Science and Epistemology. In: Nersessian, N.J. (eds) The Process of Science. Science and Philosophy, vol 3. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-3519-8_1
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