Friday, August 24, 2012

Experimental Reason and Examplification

As has been previously discussed, Experimental Reason produces not merely events, but appearances, i. e. evidence subject to further consideration.  Furthermore, such appearances are conceived as exemplary, i. e. as representative of other events, e. g. that a ball accelerates when experimentally rolled down an incline is conceived by Galileo as representative of all earthbound motion.  Now, the inference from arbitrary singular case to universal is warranted by the 'universal generalization' rule in contemporary Logic.  Here, that transition is classified as an instance of the process previously introduced as 'Examplification', i. e. as 'setting an example', a familiar notion in ordinary experience.  So, Experimental Reason entails Exemplification.

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