ABSTRACT

Schiller, F.C.S. Among the obstacles to scientific progress a high place must certainly be assigned to the analysis of scientific procedure which Logic has provided. . . . It has not tried to describe the methods by which the sciences have actually advanced, and to extract . . . rules which might be used to regulate scientific progress, but . . . has freely re-arranged the actual procedure in accordance with its prejudices. For the order of discovery there has been substituted an order of ‘proof’ . . .