Carl G. Hempel, Germany (1905-1997) Carl Gustav Hempel brought our attention to 19th-century Hungarian physician Ignaz Semmelweis and his investigations in the systematic discovery of the solution to a scientific problem . In this essay, Hempel talks about the important aspects of scientific inquiry. A scientific inquiry carries on several assumptions and testing to get to the invention of scientific discovery. The formulation of scientific discovery often involves formulating hypotheses, testing predictions and an interdisciplinary search in the real world. The writer tries to say that one should formulate a good hypothesis, test the possible conditions and reach the conclusion. One should observe the situation minutely then after understanding the problems we can formulate the hypothesis. To elaborate on his theory, Hempel talks about the research conducted by Ignaz Semmelweis who discovers the main cause of the death of a large number of women who delivered babies in the
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