...humanitatem pertinent, t^e£t^u6a£JMa commune vinculum, et quasi cognatione quadam inter so contincntur.' ' Reason must approach Nature with the view indeed of...questions which he himself thinks fit to propose.' KANT, Ifeiklqohn't Translation. LONDON: BURNS AND GATES, Portman Street and Paternoster Bow. 1873....

...active observation. In experiment we do not passively observe Nature, but we interrogate her (Bacon). " Reason must approach nature with the view, indeed,...those questions which he himself thinks fit to propose " (Kant, Critique of Pure Reason, pref. to 2nd ed., p. rxvii., Meiklejohn's transl.). "For the purpose...

...Reason must not approach Nature as a pupil, but in the character of a judge, and must compel Nature to reply to those questions which he himself thinks...this single idea must the revolution be ascribed.' With Kant the idea of reason was supreme in philosophy, for, as he says, ' Objects must conform to...

...to be equal to that of a definite volume of water, or when Stahl at a later period converted metal into lime and reconverted lime into metal by the addition...length conducted into the path of certain progress." Think what it would mean to the world today if the properties of the isosceles triangle had never been...

...with a view, indeed, of receiving information ... not in the character of a pupil who listens to all his master chooses to tell him, but in that of a judge...himself thinks fit to propose. To this single idea must a revolution be ascribed by which, after groping in the dark for so many centuries, natural science...

...receiving information from it, not, however, in the character of a pupil, who listens to all that bis master chooses to tell him, but in that of a judge,...to reply to those questions which he himself thinks Gt to propose.24 Similarly for Popper, in no way are scientific theories "the digest of observations...

...who listens to all that the master chooses to tell him', but is like a 'judge who compels the witness to reply to those questions which he himself thinks fit to propose' (ibid, pp. 10-11). Kant's 'constructivist' view of empirical science bears an affinity with one of...

...'computation of the fodder consumed by geese and oxen'".1 Reason, says Kant, must approach nature "not ... in the character of a pupil, who listens to all that...to those questions which he himself thinks fit to propose".4 "We cannot study even stars or rocks or atoms", writes a modern sociologist, "without being...

...principles of judgment according to unvarying laws, and compel nature to reply to its questions.[. . . ] Reason must approach nature with the view, indeed,...questions which he himself thinks fit to propose. (1993, pp. 13, 14 [BXII, BXIII]) 16 It may be objected that description is already theory laden, but...

...unvarying laws and compel nature to reply to its questions Reason must approach nature with the view of... a judge, who compels the witnesses to reply...questions which he himself thinks fit to propose. 10 Prigogine seeks to modify the regulative ideal of reversible regularity. Prigogine's is a world...