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3 revisions | jasirs94 at Nov 24, 2016 12:30 AM | |
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182O.New67 should be preferred, recommended itself to me only as referring to logical simplicity, in spite of the fact that almost every advance in understanding natural phenomena shows them to be far more intricate than we had previously supposed. It was not until I had been forced to many a mental recantation that my mind at length opened to the true doctrine, that logical simplicity is a secondary,—and badly secondary,—consideration, and that the proper preference is, just as Galileo himself conceived it, for the hypothesis that is facile, natural, and satisfying to the human mind; and many tests concerning my own 102 103 | 182O.new67 should be preferred, recommended itself to me only as referring to logical simplicity, in spite of the fact that almost every advance in understanding natural phenomena shows them to be far more intricate than we had previously supposed. It was not until I had been forced to many a mental recantation that my mind at length opened to the true doctrine, that logical simplicity is a secondary,—and badly secondary,—consideration, and that the proper preference is, just as Galileo himself conceived it, for the hypothesis that is facile, natural, and satisfying to the human mind; and many tests concerning my own 102 103 |