PHIL 315 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Snapple, Scientific Method, Peace And Conflict Studies
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The unity of science: the world is a unity, despite the infinite variety of its components. Human reason, which considers this world as an object to investigate and understand, is the same or identical in spite of the infinite number of diverse human beings past and present in whom it is incarnated. Consequently, science must also be something unified, because it is nothing other than the recognition and understanding of the world by human reason. These laws are divided and subdivided into general, particular, and special laws. The method of science: in order to establish these general, particular and special laws, man has no other instrument than the careful and exact observation of facts and phenomena that take place both outside and inside him. And in the course of this observation, man distinguishes what is accidental, contingent, and mutable from what occurs always and everywhere in the same invariable way.
