The logic now in use serves rather to fix and give stability to the errors which have their foundations in commonly received notions than to help the search after truth. So it does more harm than good.
Given a finite set of hypotheses that might be true and given that one of them is true, a method is presented for choosing among them based on experimental evidence with the equal probability of choosing correctly no matter which hypothesis is true. This provides a firm foundation for the hard sciences.
With an additional postulate, the method can be extended to a finite set of families of hypotheses. An example of a family of hypotheses would be all normal distributions with mean zero. With this additional postulate, the method can be extended to the soft sciences. Unfortunately, applied to the soft sciences, it uncovers a flimsy foundation.
The hard sciences get it right without knowing why; the soft sciences get it wrong without knowing why.
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