ABSTRACT

With the development of the modern scientific method, two important goals had been achieved: first, scientists had learned to ask the right kind of questions about nature and, second, they had hit upon a systematic way of attacking and answering those questions. To take the familiar example of projectile motion, it was now recognized that the old issue of natural vs. violent motion arose as a result of human beings setting up categories that had nothing to do with nature. The problem arose because of the way we look at the world and had nothing to do with nature itself. Once the question was rephrased—where will the projectile actually go, for example—progress could be made.