In:The Texture of Discourse: Towards an outline of connectivity theory
Jan Renkema
[Not in series 151] 2009
► pp. 103–122
Chapter 8 This model and other models
Published online: 30 September 2009
https://doi.org/10.1075/z.151.08thi
https://doi.org/10.1075/z.151.08thi
The history of science suggests that we progress not by simply collecting facts but by synthesizing ideas and then testing them. It also teaches us that nothing is so effective in promoting new thoughts and experiments as a theory that one can amend or even knock down. (Gerald M. Edelman, Bright Air, Brilliant Fire: On the Matter of the Mind, 1992)
