Open Access
American Research Journal of History and Culture
ISSN (Online): 2379-2914
DOI: 10.46568/arjhc
Observation Statements
Retired Associate Professor of Philosophy
North Carolina Central University
North Carolina
Dr. Thomas W. Smythe, ”Observation Statements”. American Research Journal of History
and Culture; Volume 2, 2016; pp:1-4
Abstract
It is generally agreed that science must be based on observations or sense perception. For a theory or hypothesis
to be scientific it must be empirically verifiable or falsifiable via the five sense modalities. This paper reprises an
article by Fred Dretske that provides conditions under which we have an observation term. It goes on to present
and defend an Alternative Approach comparing and contrasting the alternative to Dretske’s account.
