"Fragile and misdirected though they are, theories are the essential containers of scientific knowledge and the necessary vehicles of scientific progress. As suggested by the metaphors of containers and vehicles, criteria such as storage capacity and speed of progress--criteria that are appraisable without having to speak of proof and disproof, or of truth and falsity--are most appropriate for evaluating theories. The work of science may best be regarded as approving and disapproving of theories, rather than as proving and disproving them" (p. 226; emphasis in the original).
So what do you think, bunnies?
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| Do you approve? |
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6 comments:
Are there any ambivalent bunnies?
Ooooh, good question! (One might even say, an empirical question?)
I think this rabbit may be ambivalent:
http://ironicdisciple.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/Bunny.jpg
Sorry, let's try a link:
ambivalent rabbit
For rabbits, the line between ambivalent and scared may be hard to draw, but that's the most ambivalent bun I've seen. Nice find, Tam.
The period of fear/alertness that proceeds high-tailing it (an oddly apt characterization of rabbits, perhaps) is a type of ambivalence, I think.
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