• DOI:10.1086/368728
Corpus ID: 95978870

Precision Instruments and the Demonstrative Order of Proof in Lavoisier's Chemistry

@article{Golinski1994PrecisionIA,
  title={Precision Instruments and the Demonstrative Order of Proof in Lavoisier's Chemistry},
  author={J. Golinski},
  journal={Osiris},
  year={1994},
  volume={9},
  pages={30 - 47}
}

• J. Golinski
• Published 1994
• Philosophy
• Osiris

If it is true that a controversy approaches its conclusion by the accumulation of facts that impinge upon it, it is only so provided these "facts" are without ambiguity in their implications. For otherwise, twisted by the rival hypotheses, and sometimes with so many more words that they convey less sense, these "facts" so multiply the extraneous questions that controversies become endless. Thus prejudice and imagination freely hold sway and logic is replaced by fashion. -Jean-Andr6 Deluc (1790… Expand

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