Hogwarts Gymnastics Professor

Chapter 158 The Origin of Science

A week passed, and Lockhart left his shadow clone to attend classes step by step in the school, while the main body kept communicating with Snape.

At present, in the Ministry of Magic, Fudge is constantly eliminating dissidents in the name of catching ghosts with the cooperation of Wood.

In addition to putting the Dark Mark against the sky somewhere in the UK every time Fudge made a statement in the Daily Prophet, Hydra was also surrounded by pure-blooded military statistics most of the time. The Bureau is engaging in factional fighting.

Bellatrix originally thought that after getting Barty Crouch Jr. out, she would be able to sit firmly in the top spot, but she didn't expect to suppress Borgin Bock, but Barty Crouch Jr. has a self-contained A school of trends.

Therefore, Bellatrix thought of transferring Igor Karkarov, the current headmaster of Durmstrang Magic School, to the team while continuing to suppress the team. which step.

The phantom of Voldemort played by Lockhart, in the name of being about to be resurrected and needing preparations, started to do nothing regardless. Watching the Death Eaters and villains inside Hydra gather more and more people, their power is getting stronger and stronger. Weaker and weaker, Lockhart was very satisfied.

The Red Ghost Society has recently started a frenzied propaganda campaign under the guidance of Ron, Dobby, Ilich, and Rita Skeeter, and the effect is very good.

This is thanks to Fudge's arrest of the ghost, which made the wizarding world angry. Lockhart felt that it was a wise choice not to get Fudge down directly. It's hard to find a stupid opponent like him who will help him. the second.

Lupine's company was also developing smoothly, and Marcus Smart, the inventor of Wolfsbane Potion, had accepted Lupine's invitation. Unlike Snape, he was a serious mental illness patient, so when Lupine was quick to say yes when he offered to help him and demonstrate the automated assembly line.

At the same time, Sirius was still doing research in Latin America and did not come back, but it is said that Sirius believed that America is a good place, with a vast world and great potential.

There was news about Nicole Flamel from Dumbledore, saying that it was Nicole Flamel and his wife, an old couple who are going on a 500-year super platinum and diamond wedding trip, and they will not have the opportunity to meet Loja until the summer vacation Special meet.

In short, although a storm that is about to sweep the magic world has begun to accumulate its own strength, at least everything is developing smoothly at present, so Lockhart has enough time to reverse and stabilize Snape's mood.

This week, Lockhart first took Snape to visit the automated production line of Azkaban Perfume and Health Products Co., Ltd., and then took him to the Astronomical Museum and Observatory two or three times.

They took Snape to Westminster Abbey to pay homage to Mr. Newton, and then Snape began to formally study, yes, to study.

Lockhart originally planned to arrange for Snape and Marcus Smart to do research together. Both of them are top potions masters in charge. Discussing and brainstorming together will surely generate many new ideas. Come.

But Snape himself objected. Like countless wise men who were shocked by the modern technology they saw for the first time, he asked a question: "Why can Muggles develop in this way, but wizards can't?"

Lockhart had thought about this question once before, but of course the answer to ordinary people was different from the answer to Snape.

Faced with such questions as scientists, more scientific answers are needed.

Therefore, Lockhart took out a large box of books, including "Aristotle's Logical Doctrine", "Euclidean Geometry Elements", "The Function of Hypothetical Deduction" and other books.

To some extent, the logic established by Aristotle is the premise of modern science and the starting point of all logic. He established a logical reasoning method from the general to the specific, which is often called inevitability. reasoning.

In short, Aristotle gave a method of reasoning from the particular to the general, and from the general to the particular, which was later called the deductive method.

Most people who study the origins of science agree that Aristotle's logic brought science to life.So no matter how much Aristotle was wrong about his various views on physics, people thought Aristotle was a great philosopher.

The axiomatic method proposed by Euclid in his book "Elements of Geometry" is a model for establishing any knowledge system in modern times. From its creation to the present, it has been regarded as an example of rigorous thinking that must be followed.

In the process of learning knowledge, especially science and engineering, we must talk about axioms, regard axioms as something that must be established, and then discuss under these conditions to draw theorems and inferences.

This greatly lowers the threshold for learning and applying various knowledge. If there is no such method as Euclid, which can match everything in one brain, then it is undoubtedly necessary to establish a complete knowledge system for learning and application. Incomparably difficult.

The hypothesis-deductive method is the most commonly used research method in modern scientific research. It is derived from Aristotle's deductive method, but it adds a more important part-experiment.

The specific steps of the hypothesis-deduction method are to observe the phenomenon and put forward a hypothesis, use the hypothesis to explain the phenomenon to see if it is logically self-consistent, and then do an experiment to demonstrate that if the experimental result is consistent with the expected conclusion, it proves that the hypothesis is correct, otherwise, it shows that The hypothesis is wrong.

People can do the first two steps of observing phenomena to put forward hypotheses and use hypotheses to explain whether they are logically self-consistent. The subsequent experimental verification is an important difference between science and non-science.

For example, some people think that man was created by God, while others think that man evolved step by step from other lower animals.

Both have no loopholes in logic, and they cannot be right or wrong through simple debate and reasoning.

Then it can be considered that both are right, is this right?
Of course not, because the link of experimental demonstration is missing, and the experiment must be observed before it can be confirmed. This is where the biggest difference between science and metaphysics derives.

As long as metaphysics can be explained well, the internal logic is self-consistent, and science must be proved by experiments again on this basis. People call this important distinction that science has falsifiability.

Therefore, when various fossils at different stages of human evolution are continuously discovered and clear evidence is in front of us, everything is conclusive.

Lockhart roughly explained some of the origins of science to Snape, and then began to read books with Snape. Everyone must make progress, especially scientific progress.

　This is also an answer to Needham's puzzle: why modern science does not appear in China, because China does not have a complete logic.

　　During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, although there were schools of thought that emphasized logic such as the famous scholars and the Mohists, they never summed up a whole set of logic. Many people think that this is a possible reason why modern science did not appear in China.

　　What do you think?
　　
　
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