Models of scientific inquiry

Models of scientific inquiry have two functions: first, to provide a descriptive account of how scientific inquiry is carried out in practice, and second, to provide an explanatory account of why scientific inquiry succeeds as well as it appears in generating consistent and highly practical models. The philosopher Wesley C. Salmon described scientific inquiry: The search for scientific knowledge ends far back into antiquity.

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