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4. Select any of the great conclusions of modern science,
and show how hypothesis has given rise to discovery,
tracing the stages by which approximate certainty has been
reached. [L.]
5. What are the Inductive difficulties in arguing from a
negative ? Give appropriate examples. [E.]
6. The Inductive Methods have been called weapons of
elimination. Discuss the appropriateness of this descrip
tion. [L.]
7. Discuss the relation of Hypothesis to Observation, and
" No theorising apart from observa
examine the following :
tion, and no observing save in the light of theory." [L.]
Or-
Analyse the process of scientific observation, and in the
light of your answer consider whether or how far it is pos
sible to have a logic of observation. [L.] Or,
Consider in detail the nature and relation to one another
of the processes called Description and Explanation.
8. Can the Methods of Induction be reduced to one
Method? Are they logically valid? 1
[St A.]
9.
"
Whatever is inconceivable must be false." Discuss
the ambiguities in this statement. In what sense is it true?
10. Examine the following : "The only merits or demerits
a theory can have arise from two desiderata (i)
be contradicted by any part of our experience, (2)
it must not
it must be
as simple as possible." [L.]
u. Describe the logical characters of the following in
ferences, and discuss their validity :
(a)
(ti)
"
Sir D. Brewster proved that the colours seen upon
" A
mother-of-pearl are not caused by the nature of the
substance, but by the form of the surface. He took
impressions of mother-of-pearl in wax, and found
that, though the substance was entirely different,
2
the colours were exactly the same."
person is in sound health mentally and physically.
The breaking of a minute blood-vessel in the brain
causes a clot of blood there, which is followed im-
1 This question will repay careful consideration.
2 Is Jevons right in giving this as an example of the method of
Single Agreement?