Book contents
- What Science Is and How It Really Works
- What Science Is and How It Really Works
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I
- Part II
- 4 How Scientific Reasoning Differs from Other Reasoning
- 5 Natural Properties of a Rule-Governed World, or Why Scientists Study Certain Types of Things and Not Others
- 6 How Human Observation of the Natural World Can Differ from What the World Really Is
- 7 Detection of Patterns and Associations, or How Human Perceptions and Reasoning Complicate Understanding of Real-World Information
- 8 The Association of Ideas and Causes, or How Science Figures Out What Causes What
- Part III
- About the Author
- Index
4 - How Scientific Reasoning Differs from Other Reasoning
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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 July 2019
- What Science Is and How It Really Works
- What Science Is and How It Really Works
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I
- Part II
- 4 How Scientific Reasoning Differs from Other Reasoning
- 5 Natural Properties of a Rule-Governed World, or Why Scientists Study Certain Types of Things and Not Others
- 6 How Human Observation of the Natural World Can Differ from What the World Really Is
- 7 Detection of Patterns and Associations, or How Human Perceptions and Reasoning Complicate Understanding of Real-World Information
- 8 The Association of Ideas and Causes, or How Science Figures Out What Causes What
- Part III
- About the Author
- Index
Summary
In the early 1950s, a group called the Seekers formed in a suburb of Chicago, based on the belief that they were receiving messages from a greater intelligence through a process called “automatic writing.” Automatic writing occurred when a medium (in this case, a woman named Dorothy Martin) entered a trance-like state that allowed her to write out channeled messages from a greater being called Sananda. Martin’s hand would basically take on a mind of its own and messages from Sananda would come forth on paper. An entire belief construct was derived from these messages, including an understanding that they were coming from a faraway planet named Clarion and that UFOs from Clarion were frequently visiting Earth.
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- What Science Is and How It Really Works , pp. 105 - 129Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019