“Do Scientists Uncover Reality or Interpret Experience?”

Abstract

nature, but only relative to a logically consistent set of (contingent) active associations. Most importantly, the armature around which scientific knowledge is woven is made up of non-logical cognitive choices. Scientific reasoning can be cast in a logical form such that scientific facts can be deduced from a theory, but scientific facts are not independent of our reasoning about them. There is within such facts something that resists logical inferences that are not consistent with some external state of affairs and its relations with other external states of affairs. (192)