Cumulative Record. Chapter 9: A Case History in Scientific Method. Quote 13

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Since I do not wish to deprecate the hypothetico-deductive method, I am glad to testify to its usefulness. It led me to apply our second principle of unformalized scientific method and to ask myself why every press of the lever had to be reinforced. (p. 118)

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