Non-Uniqueness in Geoscientific Inference
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Author(s): P. Moharir
Publisher: Research Studies Press
ISBN: 0863802176
Format: hardback
630pp
Price: £60.00
Review Date: 07 December 2005
Review: Scientific inference is used to understand the external world and the influence that our actions have on it. It comes from the interaction of hypothesis, observation and inferential procedures. Non-uniqueness poses a severe problem to objective scientific inference. This book discusses the causes of non-uniqueness and suggests that they are not entirely removable. The author argues that truth is not manifest and that progress in science is not sequential but is achieved by tentative theorization and systematic error elimination.