Steve Greenleaf

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In Bacon there are a few hints that there are degrees of certainty in science,87 but on the whole Bacon is the most insistent on certainty of all the founders of the scientific revolution. He is against the simple inductive enumeration of the logicians, simply on the grounds of its fallibility:
The Science of Conjecture: Evidence and Probability Before Pascal
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