Aristotle

occupation / innovator as

President of the British Society for the History of Science

nationality

Australian

historian of science

zoologist

religion

Anglicanism

scientific organization

British Society for the History of Science

Pontifical Academy of Sciences

German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina

International Academy of the History of Science

innovator in the field of

zoology

taught first that scientific investigation and explanation was a twofold process, the first inductive and the second deductive. The order of discovery was the reverse of the order of demonstration.

According to Aristotle, scientific investigation and explanation was a twofold process, the first inductive and the second deductive. The investigator must begin with what was prior in the order of knowing, that is, with the facts observed through the senses, and he must ascend through induction to generalizations or universal forms or causes which were most remote from sensory experience, yet causing that experience and therefore prior in the order of nature. [Footnote:] The idea that the order of demonstration was the order of nature came from Plato. Aristotle said that the order of discovery was the reverse of the order of demonstration.

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