Single Idea 2461

[catalogued under 14. Science / A. Basis of Science / 3. Experiment]

Full Idea

Experimentation is an occasional and more or less self-conscious exercise in what informal thinking does all the time without thinking about it.

Gist of Idea

An experiment is a deliberate version of what informal thinking does all the time

Source

Jerry A. Fodor (The Elm and the Expert [1993], §4)

Book Reference

Fodor,Jerry A.: 'The Elm and the Expert' [MIT 1995], p.99