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Quote: measurement is inheritently imprecise, as are the results of experiments

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science as measurement
Topic:
history of science

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measurement requires units of some kind, and there … counted units and fractions of units. … [p. 37] Galileo saw, when he began actual measurements … themselves. Hence he did not insist of the … was based on reasonable agreement with observation rather … or verbal (as with Aristotle). … [p. 67] The gulf between incontrovertible evidence and preponderance …   Google-1   Google-2

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Quote: Galileo sought reasonable agreement with observation rather than Aristotle's incontrovertible evidence

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