Lexicon of Arguments

 

I 78
Induction/Francis Bacon/Mayr: large rehabilitation (and actually the first introduction) of induction. For two centuries decisive.
>F. Bacon.
Justus von LiebigVsBacon: Liebig 1863⁽¹⁾ first rejection of Bacon. "Induction alone cannot produce new theories".
Biology: for them, practically none of the universal laws of physics apply. This is why it was largely excluded from science philosophy.
>Laws of nature, >Physics.
I 80
MayrVsPopper: it is often very difficult, if not impossible, to falsify a useless theory convincingly. The categorical statement that in a single falsification the whole theory falls does not apply to evolutionary biology.
>Falsification, >K. Popper, >Theories.
I 219
Def Induction/Biology/Mayr: Influence of already existing tissues on the development of other tissues. By proteins. It is important for almost all organisms.


1. J. v. Liebig (1863). The natural laws of husbandry. Boston: D. Appleton and company.