“All good intellects have repeated, since Bacon’s time, that there can be no real knowledge but that which is based on observed facts. This is incontestable, in our present advanced stage; but, if we look back to the primitive stage of human knowledge, we shall see that it must have been otherwise then. If it is true that every theory must be based upon observed facts, it is equally true that facts cannot be observed without the guidance of some theory. Without such guidance, our facts would be desultory and fruitless; we could not retain them: for the most part we could not even perceive them.” PhilosophyFactsScienceKnowledgeTheoryPerceptionGuidancePositivismBaconFrancis BaconObserved Facts Book:The Positive Philosophy Source: The Positive Philosophy
“Pluto is dead, I know as I observed the Terminator that was sent to kill it” KillingAstronomyKillersDeadObserversKillKillerAstrophysicsObserveKilledAstronomicalPlutoAstronomerObserverTerminatedObservedKillsSentTerminateTerminatorObserved RealityObserved FactsTerminater Author:Steven Magee