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  1. How assumptions shape the paleosciences.Ian Tattersall - 2019 - History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences 41 (4):39.
    Science is a very special form of storytelling, one in which the stories told have to be testable against empirical observation. But the world is a complicated place; and, to provide a coherent account of it, scientists often find themselves obliged to join up their observable dots using untestable or as-yet-untested lines. This is a necessary part of constructing many valuable and predictive scientific scenarios; and it is perfectly good procedure as long as the assumptions involved are fully compatible with (...)
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