>>12575495Teaching science without historical context is also far less helpful to teaching it as an activity. As with everything else, how it was done conveys most of the how-to, and this includes the building of scientific intuition, which isn't at all the same thing as, say, instinct, or kinesthetic horse-sense, or for that matter geometrical intuition, especially considered separately. Philosophy, especially analytic philosophy on the borders of mathematics, which often treats such matters in detail, especially with respect to fallacies in logic, is a necessary part of science.
