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OSWALD · **on:** Jul 14, 2018

If Bacon's view is correct:

A. observations he made in the 17th century are still useful today.

B. theory-neutral observations are impossible.
C. scientists must avoid religious questions.

D. pure science need not have any practical applications.
E. science, like art, never progresses, but only changes.

Question 2

If Bentham were to study the nature of sweetness, which of the following would not be part of his method?

A. Making a list of sweet substances
B. Making a list of substances that are not sweet

C. Specifying which things are more or less sweet

D. Checking hypotheses about the nature of sweetness against the lists

E. Making a list of all the other properties possessed by sweet things