@inbook{8f1a658b117241e88839c9a347ac2929,
title = "The Function of the Doctrine of Prejudice",
abstract = "The function of the doctrine of prejudice is to explain any failure of devoted scientific research by blaming its operatives, or rather the prejudices that pollute their minds, since observers who endorse some theories before they observe see things wrongly. This is also the explanation of why all the labors of centuries of past research bore less fruit than what Bacon intended to achieve within a few years, or at least within a few generations (Novum Organum, 1, Aph. 178). Indeed, any optimist must have an answer to the obvious question, why was the past so bad when the prospects for the future are so bright? What is the cause of the expected radical change?.",
keywords = "Hasty Induction, Inductive Machine, Past Failure, Phlogiston Theory, Tremendous Effect",
author = "Joseph Agassi",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2013, Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht.",
year = "2013",
doi = "10.1007/978-94-007-5351-8_4",
language = "אנגלית",
series = "Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science",
publisher = "Springer Nature",
pages = "39--47",
booktitle = "Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science",
address = "ארצות הברית",
}