Lexicon of Arguments

 

I 292
Theory/Hacking: I have no idea what a theory of "non-distortion through exposure to air" would be like.
Observation without theory: e.g. Herrschel’s discovery of heat radiation 1800.
>Discoveries, >Observation, >Seeing, >Method, >Science.
I 291 ff
His first assumption was that which we believe today. His theory was then entirely aligned to Newton, but that did not affect his observation.
Problem: his observation was burdened by absolutely inadequate accuracy claims (precision, accuracy). He measured down to the thousandth, something which he was not able to do!
The absence of a theory made him notice something: invisible infrared had to be included in the white light. (Hanson would have claimed that we would only be able to notice such a thing if we previously had a theory).
>Theory ladenness.
I 348
Unit/theory/Hacking: magnetism can affect light. Thus, it was possible to unify both (from interaction).
>Unification, >Reduction.

1. Hanson, R. N. (1958). Patterns of discovery. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press