Whewellova interpretácia histórie vedy
Whewell’s Interpretation of the History of Science

Summary/Abstract: William Whewell is most known today for his massive works on the history and philosophy of science. According to Whewell, all knowledge has both a subjective, as well as an objective dimension. He called this “fundamental antithesis” of knowledge. Whewell believed that the concepts “fact”, “idea” and “theory” are of value for interpreting the history of science, even though every theory may be also a fact and every fact partakes of the nature of theory. The pattern of scientific discovery which he claimed to see in the history of sciences was a three-beat progression with an inductive epoch. Whewell also maintained that the necessary status of the fundamental laws of nature derives from their relations to those ideas which are a priori necessary conditions of objective empirical knowledge.

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