Word: methods
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...achieving of high humanitarian purposes by the easy method of using the involuntary good Samaritan ... is not edifying. There ought to be a better method of making the legal order effective for our humanitarian ideals than that of Robin Hood or that of the pickpocket who . . . was so moved by the preacher's eloquence that he picked the pockets of everyone in reach and put the contents in the plate...
Insured Millions. Other U.S. families use insurance to spread the costs of medical care over the years. Their number grew slowly in the first years after the Wilbur committee recommended this method. Lately it has mushroomed, until today 40% of the nation is covered in some degree. No less than 61 million Americans (counting subscribers and dependents) have hospital insurance, 43% of them through insurance companies, 57% through the famed Blue Cross voluntary plans...
...grave fault with that method, said "Scotty" Reston, is that the negotiations are completed before the public knows about them, so that the "critic in the press . . . has to upset a whole series of applecarts if he wants to make any major change in the policy." What is needed, Reston said, is a working arrangement by which Government officials can tell responsible reporters the broad lines of their policy beforehand so that there can be "some objective discussion of the facts in public...
...method set forth by Popper is essentially pragmatic. He advocated a humanistic outlook of science, a compromise between the axiomatic science of Descartes and the purely experimental science of Bacon. Axioms, he said, must be verified by experience...
Popper added that the Cartesian view, which conceives of success in science as contingent solely upon employing the correct method, is false, and that this attitude leads to what he considers an unhealthy organization of state scientific research...