The SCIENTIFIC Method

原文: http://www.ielts-exam.net/docs/Reading/IELTS_Reading_12_Passage_3.htm

1.
不懂,那段"was arguing in favour of"

‘Hypotheses,’ said Medawar in 1964, ‘are imaginative and inspirational in character’; they are ‘adventures of the mind’. He was arguing in favour of the position taken by Karl Popper in The Logic of Scientific Discovery (1972, 3rd edition) that the nature of scientific method is hypothetico-deductive and not, as is generally believed, inductive."

2.
不清楚那段""out of these sensory data"的意思
在奇摩字典上找到一個有可能的解釋,不知道是不是這個解釋?
"He was learning to carve little dancing figures out of wood .   他學著用木頭雕刻跳舞的小人。"

The myth of scientific method is that it is inductive: that the formulation of scientific theory starts with the basic, raw evidence of the senses - simple, unbiased, unprejudiced observation. Out of these sensory data - commonly referred to as ‘facts’ — generalisations will form.

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這段話的結構我不是很明瞭,
裡面出現的"more"和"than"是一組比較級嗎?
所以這段話可以解釋成""
" involving guesses, reworkings, corrections, blind alleys and above all inspiration, in the deductive as well as the hypothetic component" 比閱讀" thesis or published"更加全面

This is much more holistic — involving guesses, reworkings, corrections, blind alleys and above all inspiration, in the deductive as well as the hypothetic component -than is immediately apparent from reading the final thesis or published papers.