Methodology of natural philosophers
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Use the attached pdf to answer the prompt.
Prompt: What intellectual errors did he (and Bacon) imagine themselves to be pushing back against? How does Offray de La Mattrie put this method into practice? Based on your reading of Man, A Machine, what advantages do you see to this method? What disadvantages? Are there instances where he seems to be imposing his own preconceptions on his observations rather than rigorously following his own methodological demands?
