Scientific Methodologies in Medieval Islam
@article{McGinnis2003ScientificMI, title={Scientific Methodologies in Medieval Islam}, author={J. McGinnis}, journal={Journal of the History of Philosophy}, year={2003}, volume={41}, pages={307 - 327} }
The present study considers Ibn Sînâ's (Lat. Avicenna) account of induction (istiqra') and experimentation (tajriba). For Ibn Sînâ induction purportedly provided the absolute, necessary and certain first principles of a science. Ibn Sînâ criticized induction, arguing that it can neither guarantee the necessity nor provide the primitiveness required of first principles. In it place, Ibn Sînâ developed a theory of experimentation, which avoids the pitfalls of induction by not providing absolute… Expand
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