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- W777639392 abstract "IT is customary for commentators when detailing Pascal's scientific achievements to regard the method which he adopts in physics as foreshadowing that of modem empirical science.! And indeed it is not necessary to' look further than the Pensees in order to find a statement of the positivist conception of scientific knowledge. The 'Disproportion de l'homme' fragment there sets out clearly enough the sort of approach which Pascal, in common with such contemporaries as Roberval, Gassendi and Mersenne, is normally thought of as bringing to this field O'fknowledge.2 However, the divergence between the theoretical and practical aspects of Pascal's scientific investigation is less often remarked upon.3 Yet the actual procedure which he follows in his own discoveries, and the certainty which he claims for conclusions reached, hardly tally with the radical character of his views on such iundamental points as induction and the nature of hypotheses. According to Pascal, and seventeenth century French thinkers generally, certain knowledge is attainable in science only through demonstration, a form of proof which differs in logical status from all others. In the De l'esprit geom1etrique Pascal outlines an ideal method of demonstration,4 to comply with which it would be necessary to define rigorously all terms used, in addition to advancing only propositions proved by means of truths already established. It is evident however that such a method would involve an indefinite regress in definition and proof, and is on that account impossible. Besides, a point is .always reached in this process where O'necomes up against 'primitive' words which cannot be defined, and primary propositions which it is impossible to' get behind in order to' prove-a state of affairs which Pascal regards as arising, not simply in the nature of the case, but because of the limitations of the human intellect. Whence he concludes:" @default.
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- W777639392 title "INCONSISTENCIES IN PASCAL’S CONCEPTION OF SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE" @default.
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