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Peter Godfrey-Smith

“Science constantly strives to reduce the number of things that we must accept as fundamental. We try to develop general explanatory schemata (explanatory schemes) that can be applied as widely as possible. This proposal certainly makes a lot of sense of how scientists operate. Indeed, it seems clear that what produces an Aha!" reaction is often the realization that some odd-looking phenomenon is really a case of something more general.”

Peter Godfrey-Smith, Theory and Reality: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Science
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Theory and Reality: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Science (Science and Its Conceptual Foundations series) Theory and Reality: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Science by Peter Godfrey-Smith
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