Chapter 3 outline on: The Canons of Empirical Methods

1.) The Canon of Selection
Bernard Lonergan refers to two types of data: the data of sense, and the data of consciousness. He feels that the data of consciousness, or one's experience of the working of one's own mind be a part of one's research and be made available to the sense through reading and personal experience. The Canon of Selection is a set of general, testable principles that explains a range of observed phenomenon to be scientific. In order for a selection to be scientific, one has to see if it allows a prediction that is testable. For example, If my theory is that all pola…