IELTS READING S49AT3

THE SCIENTIFIC METHOD

A. ’Hypotheses,’ said Medawar in 1964, ‘are imaginative and inspirational in character’ they are ‘adventures of the mind’. He was arguing in favour of the position taken by Karl Popper in The Logic of Scientific Discovery (1972, 3rd edition) that the Q36 nature of scientific method is hypothetico-deductive and not, as is generally believed, inductive.

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