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Was the discovery of fire, by humans, a scientific discovery?
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April 21, 2006

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Peter Lipton
April 22, 2006 (changed April 22, 2006) Permalink

The discovery of ways to reliably produce fire was a great achievement in technology and engineering. The first observation of fire is not what I would call science (and presumably predates the existence of humans). But there is no sharp border between ordinary observation, inference and explanation and science, though there are clear cases on either side.

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