Minds, Meaning and Morals

March 18, 2007

Darwin’s Use of Consilience and Analogy in the Origin of Species

Filed under: biology, science — Jeff G @ 1:48 pm

Soon after the publication of Origin of Species, Charles Darwin wrote the following in a letter to Hugh Falconer:

“You were very antagonistic to my views on species.  I well knew this would be the case.  I must freely confess, the difficulties and objections are terrific; but I cannot believe that a false theory would explain, as it seems to me it does explain, so many classes of facts.”[1] (more…)

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