caa a22 4500 465747930 CHVBK 20180323111825.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170327e19900101xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/BF00322387 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/BF00322387 Oeser Erhard Institut für Wissenschaftstheorie, Universität Wien, Sensengasse 8, A-1090, Wien, Austria aut The evolution of scientific methods [Elektronische Daten] [Erhard Oeser] Summary: Scientific knowledge may be regarded as a reversal of common sense knowledge, as it does not primarily serve the preservation of life, but the acquisition of "objective knowledge”. All the same, our innate cognition apparatus can be transcended only by aid of the apparatus itself, by a repetition of the original procedure. This means that a scientific method has the same quasicircular structure as the elementary mechanism of trial and error-elimination that is observable already by the lowest animals. A scientific method, however, is distinguished by being a consciously developed supraindividual mechanism for self-correction, that does not only eliminate incorrect information but also stores correct information. The reconstruction of the historical development of this supraindividual mechanism for self-correction depicts the evolution of the scientific method. Springer-Verlag, 1990 Fresenius' Journal of Analytical Chemistry Springer-Verlag 337/2(1990-01-01), 150-154 0937-0633 337:2<150 1990 337 216 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00322387 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00322387 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Oeser Erhard Institut für Wissenschaftstheorie, Universität Wien, Sensengasse 8, A-1090, Wien, Austria aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Fresenius' Journal of Analytical Chemistry Springer-Verlag 337/2(1990-01-01), 150-154 0937-0633 337:2<150 1990 337 216 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer