Roger Bacon · Science
Roger Bacon’s boldest idea, from Part VI of the <em>Opus Majus</em>: that argument alone can never make the mind rest in certainty, because only experience verifies a conclusion - and that a distinct science of experience should stand over all the others as their tester.
You learned that Bacon held there are two ways to knowledge, reasoning and experience, and that reasoning alone never removes doubt until experience confirms it; and that his ‘experimental science’ has three prerogatives over the other sciences. Explain the argument and the three prerogatives in your own w…
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