It seems to me that Chamberlin has hit on the explanation - and the cure - for many of our
problems in the sciences. The conflict and exclusion of alternatives that is necessary to
sharp inductive inference has been all too often a conflict between men, each with his
single Ruling Theory. But whenever each man begins to have multiple working
hypotheses, it becomes purely a conflict between ideas. It becomes much easier then for
each of us to aim every day at conclusive disproofs - at strong inference - without either
reluctance or combativeness. In fact, when there are multiple hypotheses, which are not
anyone's "personal property,î and when there are crucial experiments to test them, the
daily life in the laboratory takes on an interest and excitement it never had, and the
students can hardly wait to get to work to see how the detective story will come out. It
seems to me that this is the reason for the development of those distinctive habits of mind
and the "complex thought" that Chamberlin described, the reason for the sharpness, the
excitement, the zeal, the teamwork - yes, even international teamwork - in molecular
biology and high- energy physics today. What else could be so effective?
可以有点读不通的感觉啊 不知道在讲什么诶?