Download or read book Evidence and Method written by Peter Achinstein and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-04-11 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Peter Achinstein proposes and defends several objective concepts of evidence. He then explores the question of whether a scientific method, such as that represented in the four "Rules for the Study of Natural Philosophy" that Isaac Newton invoked in proving his law of gravity, can be employed in demonstrating how the proposed definitions of evidence are to be applied to real scientific cases.