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2007 | 43 | 2(172) | 239-248

Article title

Galen's Theory of Scientific Method in Medicine

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PL

Abstracts

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The article presents Galen's system of scientific medicine and some problems of its top-level principles. He endeavored to build an axiomatic and deductive system of medicine. Methods of reasoning had to respect the laws of logic; they were to follow from certain premises and to discover new truths. The lower-level premises are often secured by good empirical methods. They were not questioned, but they had not enjoyed the status of axioms. The top-level principles that have to do the work of indemonstrable primary premises are self-evident axioms and definitions. The definitions generally fulfilled the required conditions though Galen himself showed that they owed their status of being self-evident and valid to empirical research. The axioms have to be non-definitional and self-evident but as some of them are either vacuous or highly problematic, Galen's top-level medical indemonstrables are inadequate for that task.

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43

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239-248

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ARTICLE

Contributors

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  • J. Swiderek, Uniwersytet Marii Curie-Sklodowskiej w Lublinie, Instytut Filozofii i Socjologii, pl. M. Curie-Sklodowskiej 4, 20-031 Lublin, Poland

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Publication order reference

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CEJSH db identifier
07PLAAAA03196604

YADDA identifier

bwmeta1.element.8327f22e-3963-3d7f-9717-24855e91143b
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