Early on, Dedekind was very interested in physics, however, he began to lose interest and became dissatisfied with the subject, as he judged it to have an imprecise logical structure; his attentions turned towards mathematics. ... One professor in particular, Wilhelm Weber, had an inspiring effect on Dedekind through his lectures on experimental physics. ...

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"The ultimate protection against research error and bias is supposed to come from the way scientists constantly re-test each other's results. " To what extent would you agree with this claim in the natural sciences and the human sciences? The quote above is indeed correct in the way that scientific...

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