ABSTRACT
Up to this point we have dealt largely with the elements of scientific method. Problems are also sometimes raised as to the validity of the method as a whole in framing a comprehensive account of the world. We shall consider the implications of these criticisms in this chapter. Sometimes such attacks on science are launched in the interests of a skeptical philosophy, sometimes to further the adoption of one of the alternative methods we have examined. The critique of science has taken a variety of forms. Science has been attacked as a whole as falsifying reality. Or logic, one phase of the scientific method, has been set against observation or experience, the other phase. It is then asserted that logic sets problems which contradict experience and its insights directly, or itself offers contradictions which experience cannot resolve.
